Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 145
These wishing nuts, after all, had proved true fortune-tellers.
What happens: prove · To what, where: wishing nuts
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 nuts | det |
| 2 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nuts | compound |
| 3 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 proved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nuts | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 nuts | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nuts | punct |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 proved | aux |
| 9 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tellers | amod |
| 11 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tellers | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fortune | punct |
| 13 | tellers | teller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 proved | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past · perfect · passive | this wishing nuts after all | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme teller=Attribute |
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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