Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 40
It's almost too much of a good thing here; it tickles one so."
Who acts: mistake · What happens: be, tickle · To what, where: one
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 (mistake), 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 | 5 much | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 much | cop |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 thing | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 much | nmod |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 thing | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 tickles | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tickles | nsubj |
| 13 | tickles | tickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 much | advcl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 tickles | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 much | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 much | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | mistake | of a good thing; almost, much property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tickle | present | mistake | one | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Experiencer |
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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