Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 11
Yes, to find that out was the right thing.
Who acts: that · What happens: find, be · To what, where: right thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 find | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 thing | nsubj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 that | compound:prt |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thing | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thing | amod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | that | the right thing | 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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