Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 55
If I am not mistaken, our wedding took place at this season of the year.'
Who acts: I, wedding, our · What happens: not be, take, wed · To what, where: place
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 (I, wedding, our), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 mistaken | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 mistaken | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mistaken | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mistaken | advmod |
| 5 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mistaken | conj |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 season | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 season | det |
| 13 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 season | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistaken | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | mistaken property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | our wedding | place | season | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 3 | wed | our | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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