Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 39
Ah, yes," he sighed, "I know one, in which everything is solid, but a servant is there already, and that is the only thing against it.
Who acts: doubt, I, everything, servant, that · What happens: sigh, know, be · To what, where: one, only thing
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 (doubt, I, everything, servant), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 sighed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 1 Ah | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighed | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sighed | nsubj |
| 7 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sighed | ccomp |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 know | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 solid | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 solid | obl |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 solid | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 solid | cop |
| 18 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 know | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 is | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 servant | det |
| 22 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 is | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 solid | conj |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 25 | already | already | ADV | _ | 23 is | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 thing | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 thing | cc |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 thing | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 thing | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 thing | det |
| 31 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 thing | amod |
| 32 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 solid | conj |
| 33 | against | against | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thing | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh in a quote | past | doubt | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know | present | I | one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | everything | solid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | present | a servant | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | that | the only thing | against servant | 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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