Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 137
What a good thing that I have not got it!
Who acts: I · What happens: not get · To what, where: good thing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 thing | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 got | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 got | advmod |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 thing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | present · perfect | I | what good thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/137/