Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 29
Sometimes they pop me in a day extra; but I trouble myself very little about that.
Who acts: fact, I · What happens: pop, trouble · To what, where: me, myself
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, I), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 pop | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pop | nsubj |
| 3 | pop | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pop | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pop | obl |
| 8 | extra | extra | ADV | _ | 3 pop | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 trouble | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 trouble | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 trouble | nsubj |
| 12 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pop | parataxis |
| 13 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 trouble | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 little | advmod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trouble | amod |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 little | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop | present | fact | me | day | extra, sometimes property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||
| 2 | trouble | I | myself | 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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