Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 28
I never saw anything so charming; I am sure no human being could do the same."
Who acts: I, human · What happens: not see, be · To what, where: anything
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, human), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 charming | advmod |
| 6 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 anything | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sure | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sure | cop |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 human | det |
| 12 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 do | nsubj |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 do | cop |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 same | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 do | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | I | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | could · gerund | no human | do property | tree rules |
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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