Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 71
It was not a fortunate day for his visit to Bex.
Who acts: miller, Rudy · What happens: not be, visit · To what, where: fortunate day
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, Rudy), 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 | 6 day | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 day | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 visit | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 visit | nmod:poss |
| 9 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Bex | case |
| 11 | Bex | Bex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 visit | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | miller | a fortunate day | for Rudy's visit to Bex | tree rules | |||
| 2 | visit | Rudy | to Bex | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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