Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 50
But when one has been in a family circle one cannot accustom oneself to this life!
Who acts: one · What happens: be, not accustom · To what, where: family circle, oneself
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | _ | 13 accustom | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 circle | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 circle | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 circle | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 circle | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 circle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 circle | det |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 circle | compound |
| 9 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 accustom | obl |
| 10 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 accustom | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 accustom | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 accustom | advmod |
| 13 | accustom | accustom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | oneself | oneself | PRON | Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 accustom | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 life | det |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 accustom | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 accustom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | one | a family circle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not accustom | can | one | oneself | to this life | 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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