Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 18
What a sad thing it is with these people.
Who acts: thing · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 thing | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 people | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 people | cop |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thing | parataxis |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | thing | with this people | 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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