Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 44
I'm kind of a house agent, also a manager of funerals.
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: kind
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kind | cop |
| 3 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 agent | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 agent | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 agent | compound |
| 7 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kind | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 manager | punct |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 manager | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 manager | det |
| 11 | manager | manager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kind | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 funerals | case |
| 13 | funerals | funeral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 manager | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | kind | of a house agent; a manager of funerals nmod | 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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