Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 97
What a good thing it is when one has presence of mind!
Who acts: view, one · What happens: be, have · To what, where: good thing, presence
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 (view, one), 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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 is | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thing | acl:relcl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 has | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thing | advcl |
| 10 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mind | case |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 presence | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | view | what good thing not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | one | presence of mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Patient |
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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