Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 52
That would indeed be the most dreadful thing that could happen to me."
Who acts: That, dreadful thing · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: dreadful thing, me
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 (That, dreadful thing), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | aux |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 thing | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thing | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 dreadful | advmod |
| 7 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 happen | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 happen | aux |
| 11 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thing | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 happen | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 happen | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | That | the dreadful thing | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | happen | could | the dreadful thing | me | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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