Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 123
It is quite shocking that one glass of punch should have upset me like this."
Who acts: watchman, one glass · What happens: be, have
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchman, one glass), 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 shocking | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shocking | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 shocking | advmod |
| 4 | shocking | shocking | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 glass | nummod |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 punch | case |
| 9 | punch | punch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glass | nmod |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shocking | advcl |
| 12 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 have | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 upset | obl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 upset | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shocking | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shocking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | watchman | shocking property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | should | one glass of punch | upset property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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