Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 70
It is very interesting, although the whole affair is a fable.
Who acts: whole affair · What happens: be · To what, where: fable
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 (whole affair), 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 interesting | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 interesting | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 interesting | advmod |
| 4 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fable | punct |
| 6 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 12 fable | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 affair | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 affair | amod |
| 9 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fable | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fable | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fable | det |
| 12 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 interesting | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 interesting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | interesting property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the whole affair | a fable | 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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