Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 119
Was this building, perhaps, the wonder of the world?
What happens: be, wonder · To what, where: building, world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 building | cop |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 building | det |
| 3 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wonder | punct |
| 5 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 8 wonder | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wonder | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wonder | det |
| 8 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 building | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wonder | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 building | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this building | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wonder | the world | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=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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