Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 176
Nay, that is almost too improbable; and yet it is true.
Who acts: that, family · What happens: be
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 (that, family), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 7 improbable | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 improbable | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 improbable | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 improbable | cop |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 improbable | advmod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 improbable | advmod |
| 7 | improbable | improbable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 true | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 true | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 true | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 true | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 true | cop |
| 13 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 improbable | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 improbable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | almost, improbable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | family | yet | true 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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