Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 10
It would be a sin to tear up a book like this.
Who acts: cheese · What happens: be, tear up · To what, where: sin, book
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheese), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sin | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sin | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sin | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sin | det |
| 5 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tear | mark |
| 7 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sin | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 tear | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 book | det |
| 10 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tear | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 this | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 book | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | cheese | a sin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear up | to-infinitive | a book | like this | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location book=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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