Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 51
A thought has just struck me that it is so, and I believe it.
Who acts: thought, I · What happens: strike, be, believe · To what, where: thought
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thought | det |
| 2 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 struck | advmod |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 struck | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 is | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 is | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | advcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 is | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 believe | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | nsubj |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | present · perfect · passive | a thought | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient i=Result | |||||
| 2 | be | present | thought | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | believe | present | I | thought | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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