Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 66
A more fantastical imagination than Herschel's must have discovered these.
Who acts: Herschel · What happens: discover, imagine · To what, where: fantastical imagination
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 (Herschel), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 imagination | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 fantastical | advmod |
| 3 | fantastical | fantastical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 imagination | amod |
| 4 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 Herschel | case |
| 6 | Herschel | Herschel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 imagination | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Herschel | case |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 discovered | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 discovered | aux |
| 10 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 discovered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | must · perfect · passive | Herschel's fantastical imagination | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | imagine | Herschel | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=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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