Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 26
Why, there is not even a dung-heap."
What happens: not be · To what, where: dung heap
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 is | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 heap | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 heap | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 heap | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 heap | det |
| 8 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heap | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 dung | punct |
| 10 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 heap | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 heap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a dung heap | 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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