Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 148
It was his opinion that he had really made as great a journey as if he had travelled in a steamship, a railway carriage, or a post-chaise.
Who acts: miller, Babette · What happens: be, make, travell · To what, where: opinion, steamship
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, Babette), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opinion | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opinion | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 4 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 made | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 opinion | acl:relcl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 journey | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 journey | amod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 journey | det |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 travelled | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 travelled | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 travelled | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 travelled | aux |
| 18 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 made | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 steamship | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 steamship | det |
| 21 | steamship | steamship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 travelled | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 carriage | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 carriage | det |
| 24 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carriage | compound |
| 25 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opinion | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 post-chaise | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 post-chaise | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 post-chaise | det |
| 29 | post-chaise | post-chaise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opinion | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opinion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | miller | Babette's opinion and a railway carriage or a post-chaise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | Babette | Babette's opinion and a railway carriage or a post-chaise not said here | as a great journey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Product | |||
| 3 | travell | past · perfect | Babette | a steamship | 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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