Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 100
She was a very sensible girl, yet it never occurred to her that she might be a dangerous person in such a house.
Who acts: Sophy, deformity · What happens: be, not occur · To what, where: sensible girl, Sophy, dangerous person, house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sophy, deformity), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 girl | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 girl | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sensible | advmod |
| 5 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 occurred | punct |
| 8 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 11 occurred | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 occurred | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 occurred | advmod |
| 11 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 girl | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 occurred | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 person | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 person | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 person | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 person | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 person | det |
| 19 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 person | amod |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 occurred | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 house | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 person | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sophy | a sensible girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not occur | past | deformity | Sophy | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | might | Sophy | a dangerous person | such house | 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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