Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 46
"This is really frightful; I cannot even recognize East Street.
Who acts: This, many · What happens: be, not recognize · To what, where: East Street
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 (This, many), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightful | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 frightful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightful | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 frightful | advmod |
| 5 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 recognize | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 recognize | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 recognize | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 recognize | advmod |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 recognize | advmod |
| 11 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 frightful | conj |
| 12 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Street | compound |
| 13 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 recognize | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | This | frightful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not recognize in a quote | can | many | East Street | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer street=Stimulus |
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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