Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 86
I have thought upon the best way to be revenged.
Who acts: I · What happens: think, revenge
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 (I), 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 | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | aux |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 revenged | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 revenged | aux:pass |
| 10 | revenged | revenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 way | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · perfect | I | upon the best way | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | revenge | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | 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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