Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 21
It was such a great fault to doubt Babette's truth--it was most abominable of him.
Who acts: confession · What happens: be, doubt · To what, where: great fault, truth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (confession), 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 fault | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fault | cop |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 fault | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fault | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fault | amod |
| 6 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 doubt | mark |
| 8 | doubt | doubt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fault | acl |
| 9 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 truth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Babette | case |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doubt | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 abominable | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 abominable | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 abominable | cop |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 abominable | advmod |
| 16 | abominable | abominable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fault | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 abominable | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | confession | such great fault | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | doubt | to-infinitive | Babette's truth | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | confession | of Rudy; abominable 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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