Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 116
And on that very account they thought he must be something.
Who acts: People, youth · What happens: think, be · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, youth), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 account | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 account | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 account | advmod |
| 5 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 something | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 something | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 something | cop |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | People | on that account | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on account=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | must | youth | something | 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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