Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 35
This is a triangle, or more properly speaking, the half of the broken die of fortune."
Who acts: This · What happens: be, speak, break · To what, where: triangle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 triangle | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 triangle | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 triangle | det |
| 4 | triangle | triangle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 more | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 more | cc |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 triangle | conj |
| 8 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 9 speaking | advmod |
| 9 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 more | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 half | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 half | det |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 triangle | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 die | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 die | det |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 die | amod |
| 16 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 half | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fortune | case |
| 18 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 die | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 half | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 triangle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a triangle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | This not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | This not said here | properly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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