Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 43
Once, twice, once, twice--that is it.
Who acts: that · What happens: be · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 3 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 once | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 once | punct |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Once | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 twice | punct |
| 7 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 once | advmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 it | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 it | cop |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Once | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | place | 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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