Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 96
It was not very pleasant news, and besides, he had left the tinder-box at the inn.
Who acts: flour, soldier · What happens: not be, leave · To what, where: pleasant news, tinder box, inn
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 (flour, soldier), 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 | 6 news | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 news | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 news | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleasant | advmod |
| 5 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 news | amod |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 left | cc |
| 9 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 13 left | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 besides | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 left | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 left | aux |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 news | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 box | det |
| 15 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 box | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tinder | punct |
| 17 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 inn | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 inn | det |
| 20 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 box | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 news | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | flour | pleasant news | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | soldier | the tinder box | the inn | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Theme at inn=Location |
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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