Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 2
Nobody had the least idea how it had happened; the weather was quite dry.
Who acts: Nobody, it, weather · What happens: have, happen, be · To what, where: least idea
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, it, weather), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 idea | det |
| 4 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 idea | amod |
| 5 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 happened | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | aux |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 idea | acl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 dry | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 weather | det |
| 12 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dry | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dry | cop |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 dry | advmod |
| 15 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Nobody | the least idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the weather | dry 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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