Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 35
In one moment he saw what would require many words to describe.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: see, require, describe · To what, where: many words
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 moment | nummod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 require | obj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 require | aux |
| 8 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saw | xcomp |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | amod |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 require | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 describe | mark |
| 12 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 require | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Rudy | moment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | require | would | Rudy not said here | many words | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | describe | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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