Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 46
This last delicacy played a principal part in the salad.
Who acts: last delicacy · What happens: play · To what, where: principal part, salad
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last delicacy), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 delicacy | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 delicacy | amod |
| 3 | delicacy | delicacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | nsubj |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 6 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 part | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 salad | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 salad | det |
| 10 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | this last delicacy | a principal part | the salad | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
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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