Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 89
Really a complete comedy could be written about it."
What happens: write · To what, where: complete comedy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 7 written | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 comedy | det |
| 3 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 comedy | amod |
| 4 | comedy | comedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 written | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 written | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 written | aux:pass |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 written | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 written | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | could · passive | a complete comedy | about lark | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient about it=Topic |
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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