Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 41
I was sewn together by a young lady, and I have a Spanish cork in my body; but no one would think it, to look at me now.
Who acts: young lady, I, one · What happens: sew, have, think, look · To what, where: I, Spanish cork, body, cork
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young lady, I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sewn | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sewn | aux:pass |
| 3 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 sewn | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 lady | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sewn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sewn | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cork | det |
| 14 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cork | amod |
| 15 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cork | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 think | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 think | cc |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 think | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 think | aux |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sewn | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 think | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 look | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 look | mark |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 think | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 look | obl |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 look | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sewn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew | past · passive | a young lady | I | together property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | a Spanish cork | my body | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cork=Patient | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | would | no one | cork | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | no one not said here | now | at me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme |
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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