Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 59
Here was a strong fresh proof of their truth.
Who acts: strong fresh proof · What happens: be, proof · To what, where: truth
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 (strong fresh proof), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 proof | det |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proof | amod |
| 5 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proof | amod |
| 6 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 truth | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 truth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proof | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a strong fresh proof of words's truth | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | proof | words's truth | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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