Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 22
Well, this is quite wonderful; I could not have believed that I should be so favored by fortune.
Who acts: this, I, fortune · What happens: be, not believe, favor · To what, where: I
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, I, fortune), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 wonderful | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 wonderful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wonderful | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 wonderful | advmod |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 believed | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 believed | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 believed | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 believed | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 believed | aux |
| 12 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 wonderful | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 favored | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 favored | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 favored | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 favored | aux:pass |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 favored | advmod |
| 18 | favored | favor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 believed | advcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 fortune | case |
| 20 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 favored | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not believe | could · perfect | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | favor | should · passive | fortune | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
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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