Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 167
Well, if it really is so, then the gypsy woman was right in her prophecy."
Who acts: earth, gypsy woman · What happens: be · To what, where: prophecy
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: who acts (earth, gypsy woman), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 14 right | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 so | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 so | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 so | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 so | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 right | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 so | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 right | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | gypsy | gypsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 right | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 right | cop |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 prophecy | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 prophecy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 right | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 right | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | earth | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the gypsy woman | magistrate's prophecy | then | right 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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