Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 4
It must really have been a gorgeous sight to behold, in those days, when the shoemaker brought over the shield, when the court-house was changed.
Who acts: deal, shoemaker · What happens: be, bring, change · To what, where: gorgeous sight, shield, court house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deal, shoemaker), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sight | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sight | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 sight | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sight | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 sight | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 7 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sight | amod |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 behold | case |
| 10 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 8 sight | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 days | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 days | det |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sight | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 brought | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shoemaker | det |
| 18 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | nsubj |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sight | conj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 shield | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shield | det |
| 22 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 changed | punct |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 changed | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 26 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 house | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 court | punct |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 changed | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 changed | aux:pass |
| 30 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 shield | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must · perfect | deal | a gorgeous sight and that days | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the shoemaker | the shield | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | change | past · passive | the court house | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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