Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 6
And then I had not a single friend; not one familiar face greeted me.
Who acts: I, one familiar face · What happens: have, greet · To what, where: single friend, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one familiar face), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 friend | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friend | amod |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 greeted | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 face | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 face | nummod |
| 12 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 face | amod |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 greeted | nsubj |
| 14 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 greeted | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | a single friend | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | |||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past | one familiar face | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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