Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 4
This will serve as sufficient introduction to our tale.
Who acts: This, our · What happens: serve, tell · 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, our), 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 | 3 serve | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 serve | aux |
| 3 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 introduction | case |
| 5 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 introduction | amod |
| 6 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 serve | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tale | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tale | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 introduction | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | future | This | as sufficient introduction to our tale | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as introduction=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | tell | our | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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