Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 98
It must have been the poetic nature that changed me into this little creature.
Who acts: lark, poetic nature · What happens: be, change · To what, where: poetic nature, me, little creature
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 (lark, poetic nature), 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 | 7 nature | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 nature | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nature | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 nature | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nature | det |
| 6 | poetic | poetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nature | amod |
| 7 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 changed | nsubj |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nature | acl:relcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 changed | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 creature | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 creature | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 creature | amod |
| 14 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must · perfect | lark | the poetic nature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | past | the poetic nature | me | into this little creature result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into creature=Result |
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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