Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 8
It never occurred to him that these could be goloshes of Fortune.
Who acts: watchman, these · What happens: not occur, be · To what, where: rain, goloshes
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 (watchman, these), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 occurred | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 occurred | advmod |
| 3 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 occurred | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 goloshes | mark |
| 7 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 goloshes | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 goloshes | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 goloshes | cop |
| 10 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 occurred | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Fortune | case |
| 12 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goloshes | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not occur | past | watchman | rain | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | could | these | goloshes | of Fortune | 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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