Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 9
Was it really a ghostly apparition, or a fever dream?
Who acts: mountain · What happens: be · To what, where: ghostly apparition
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 (mountain), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 apparition | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 apparition | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 apparition | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 apparition | det |
| 5 | ghostly | ghostly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 apparition | amod |
| 6 | apparition | apparition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dream | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 dream | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dream | det |
| 10 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dream | compound |
| 11 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 apparition | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 apparition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | mountain | a ghostly apparition or a fever dream | 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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