Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 70
There was nothing remarkable about the pen, excepting that it had been dipped too deeply in the ink, but it was proud of that.
Who acts: nothing, pen · What happens: be, except, dip · To what, where: pen, ink
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, pen), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nothing | amod |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 pen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pen | det |
| 7 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remarkable | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 excepting | punct |
| 9 | excepting | except | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 nothing | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 dipped | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dipped | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dipped | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 dipped | aux:pass |
| 14 | dipped | dip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 excepting | advcl |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 deeply | advmod |
| 16 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 14 dipped | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 ink | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ink | det |
| 19 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dipped | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 proud | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 proud | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 proud | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 proud | cop |
| 24 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 that | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 proud | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | except | gerund | nothing not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dip | past · perfect · passive | pen | the ink | deeply property | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in ink=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | is | past | pen | of that; proud 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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