Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 25
This is just what he ought to have said at first.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. 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 what | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 what | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ought | nsubj |
| 6 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 said | mark |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | aux |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 what | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 first | case |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive · perfect | This not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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