Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 52
It happened as a punishment to him, for having boasted so shockingly of things which were not true.
Who acts: It, things · What happens: happen, boast, not be · To what, where: collar
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 (It, things), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 punishment | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 punishment | det |
| 5 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 boasted | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 boasted | mark |
| 10 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 boasted | aux |
| 11 | boasted | boast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | conj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 shockingly | advmod |
| 13 | shockingly | shockingly | ADV | _ | 11 boasted | advmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 things | case |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 boasted | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 true | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 true | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 true | advmod |
| 19 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | collar | as a punishment | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | boast speech: other | gerund · perfect | of things; shockingly property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | things | true 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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