Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 2
The first part might be left out, but it gives us a few particulars, and these are useful.
Who acts: story, these · What happens: leave out, give, be · To what, where: first part, few particulars, us
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, these), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 left | aux:pass |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 left | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gives | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 gives | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gives | nsubj |
| 11 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | parataxis |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 gives | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 particulars | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 particulars | amod |
| 15 | particulars | particular | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gives | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 useful | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 useful | cc |
| 18 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 useful | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 useful | cop |
| 20 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 left | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave out | might · passive | the first part | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | present | story | a few particulars | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient particular=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | these | useful property | 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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