Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 43
I could scarcely believe that so much could have been produced from it, till I remembered into what hands it had fallen.
Who acts: I, peal · What happens: believe, produce, remember, hand, fall · To what, where: that, peal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, peal), 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 | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 believe | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 produced | advmod |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 produced | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 produced | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 produced | aux:pass |
| 11 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 produced | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 remembered | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 remembered | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 remembered | nsubj |
| 17 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | conj |
| 18 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 20 hands | mark |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 hands | nsubj |
| 20 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 remembered | ccomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fallen | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fallen | aux |
| 23 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 hands | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | could | I | that | scarcely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | produce | could · perfect · passive | peal | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from it=Material | |||||
| 3 | remember | past | I | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hand | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | fall | past · perfect | peal | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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