Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 88
So they felt it would be useless to search any farther.
Who acts: doors, cross · What happens: feel, be, search
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, cross), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 felt | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 useless | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 useless | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 useless | cop |
| 7 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 search | mark |
| 9 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 useless | advcl |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 farther | det |
| 11 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 search | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | doors = door | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | would | cross | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | search | to-infinitive | cross not said here | far property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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