Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 19
Such a catastrophe nearly happened to the young Englishman.
Who acts: catastrophe · What happens: happen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (catastrophe), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 catastrophe | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 catastrophe | det |
| 3 | catastrophe | catastrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 happened | advmod |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Englishman | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Englishman | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Englishman | amod |
| 9 | Englishman | Englishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | such catastrophe | to the young Englishman; nearly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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