Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 147
Yes, this also was "something."
Who acts: this · What happens: be · To what, where: something
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 (this), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 something | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 something | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 something | advmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 something | cop |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 something | punct |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 something | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | this | 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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