Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 28
The little goblin had never imagined, much less seen or heard of, any sight so glorious as this.
What happens: not imagine, see, hear · To what, where: little goblin
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goblin | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goblin | amod |
| 3 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 imagined | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 imagined | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 imagined | advmod |
| 6 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 seen | advmod |
| 9 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 seen | advmod |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 imagined | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 seen | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 heard | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sight | punct |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 sight | det |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 imagined | parataxis |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 glorious | advmod |
| 18 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sight | amod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 this | case |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 glorious | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | past · perfect · passive | the little goblin | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | participle | less property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hear | participle | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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