Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 41
This is the black goblin's fault, I am sure.
Who acts: This, I · What happens: be · To what, where: fault
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 fault | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fault | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goblin | det |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goblin | amod |
| 5 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fault | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 goblin | case |
| 7 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fault | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sure | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sure | cop |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fault | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the black goblin's fault | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | sure 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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