Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 32
The last was a very difficult thing to do--more than a wise woman ought to ask.
What happens: be, do, ask · To what, where: last difficult thing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 last | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 difficult | advmod |
| 6 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thing | acl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 more | punct |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 thing | amod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ask | obl |
| 16 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 ask | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 ask | mark |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 more | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a last difficult thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | ought | than a wise woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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