Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 55
This might have happened, indeed, if there had been a real castle, with stone walls, ramparts, and a moat.
Who acts: This · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: real castle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | aux |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 indeed | punct |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 castle | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 been | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 been | expl |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 been | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 castle | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 castle | amod |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walls | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 walls | case |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walls | compound |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 castle | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ramparts | punct |
| 20 | ramparts | rampart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 walls | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 moat | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 moat | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 moat | det |
| 24 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 castle | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | might · perfect | This | indeed property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | participle | a real castle and stone walls and ramparts and a moat | 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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