Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 25
Is it possible that I am not fit for my office?
Who acts: best, I · What happens: be, not be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best, I), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 possible | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 possible | nsubj |
| 3 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 fit | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fit | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fit | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fit | advmod |
| 8 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 possible | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 office | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 office | nmod:poss |
| 11 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fit | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | best = good | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | I | for my office; fit property | 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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