Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 97
First I was a poet, and now I am a lark.
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: poet, lark
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: who acts (I), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 poet | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 poet | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 poet | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 poet | det |
| 5 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lark | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lark | cc |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 lark | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 lark | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lark | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lark | det |
| 12 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poet | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 poet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | I | a poet and a lark | first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | I | a lark | now | 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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