Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 51
If that were true, it would be very delightful, but I don't believe it.
Who acts: that, star, I · What happens: be, not believe · To what, where: star
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 (that, star, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 true | mark |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 delightful | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 delightful | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 delightful | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 delightful | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 delightful | advmod |
| 10 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 believe | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 believe | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 believe | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 believe | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 believe | advmod |
| 16 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 delightful | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 believe | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 delightful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | that | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | would | star | delightful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not believe | present · do-support | I | star | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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