Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 7
It was a leaf torn out of an old book, a book that ought not to have been torn up, for it was full of poetry.
Who acts: cheese, leaf · What happens: be, tear out, not tear up · To what, where: leaf, old book, 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, leaf), 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 | 4 leaf | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaf | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 leaf | acl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 book | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 book | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 book | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 book | amod |
| 10 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 torn | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 book | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 book | appos |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 torn | obj |
| 15 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 torn | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 torn | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 torn | mark |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 torn | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 torn | aux:pass |
| 20 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 book | acl:relcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 torn | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 full | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 full | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 full | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 full | cop |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaf | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 poetry | case |
| 28 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 full | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | cheese | a leaf | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear out | participle | a leaf not said here | a old book | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location book=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not tear up | ought · perfect · passive | a leaf not said here | a book | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | cheese | of poetry; full 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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