Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 43
But the cockchafer did not trouble himself at all about the matter.
Who acts: cockchafer · What happens: do · To what, where: trouble, matter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cockchafer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cockchafer | det |
| 3 | cockchafer | cockchafer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 trouble | advmod |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 6 trouble | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 matter | case |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 matter | advmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 matter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 matter | det |
| 12 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the cockchafer | trouble cockchafer | the matter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality |
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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