Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 23
A single ruined wall is shown as the remains of St. Peter's, but there is a doubt if this ruin be genuine.
Who acts: doubt, ruin · What happens: ruin, show, be · To what, where: single ruined wall, doubt
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, ruin), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wall | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wall | amod |
| 3 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wall | amod |
| 4 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shown | aux:pass |
| 6 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 remains | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 remains | det |
| 9 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 shown | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Peter | case |
| 11 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Peter | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 remains | nmod |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Peter | case |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 is | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shown | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 doubt | det |
| 19 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 genuine | mark |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 ruin | det |
| 22 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 genuine | nsubj |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 genuine | cop |
| 24 | genuine | genuine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 doubt | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | show | present · passive | a single ruined wall | as the remains of Peter St. | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | be | present | a doubt | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | this ruin | a doubt not said here | genuine property | 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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