Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 54
Such a storm we have never witnessed in our day; for that only happened in grandpapa's time, when he was quite a little boy.
Who acts: grandpapa · What happens: not witness, happen, be · To what, where: we, little boy
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 (grandpapa), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 storm | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 storm | det |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 witnessed | obl |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 witnessed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 witnessed | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 witnessed | advmod |
| 7 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 day | nmod:poss |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 witnessed | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 happened | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 happened | obl |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 happened | advmod |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 witnessed | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | grandpapa | grandpapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 grandpapa | case |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happened | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 boy | punct |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 boy | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 boy | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 boy | cop |
| 24 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 boy | det:predet |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 boy | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 boy | amod |
| 27 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happened | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 witnessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not witness | present · perfect · passive | we | day | such storm obl | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | happen | past | time | for that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | grandpapa | quite little boy | 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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