Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 192
They know what a terror would come upon us if such a strange thing were to happen, as the appearance of a dead person among us.
Who acts: walls, strange thing · What happens: know, come, happen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (walls, strange 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 come | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 terror | det |
| 5 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | ccomp |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 come | obl |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 happen | mark |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 thing | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 happen | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 happen | aux |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 happen | mark |
| 17 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 appearance | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 appearance | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 appearance | det |
| 21 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 happen | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 person | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 person | det |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 person | amod |
| 25 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 appearance | nmod |
| 26 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 us | case |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 happen | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | walls = wall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come | would | upon us | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon we=Location | |||||
| 3 | happen a condition, not said to happen | past | such strange thing | as the appearance of a dead person; among us | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among we=Location |
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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