Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 40
It was impossible to tell, the shock was so instantaneous.
Who acts: shock · What happens: be, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (shock), 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 | 3 impossible | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 impossible | cop |
| 3 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 impossible | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 instantaneous | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shock | det |
| 8 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instantaneous | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 instantaneous | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 instantaneous | advmod |
| 11 | instantaneous | instantaneous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 impossible | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the shock | instantaneous 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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