Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 10
They had got just so far, and the conversation began to crystallise, as it could but do with the scanty stream which the commonplace world supplied.
Who acts: houses, conversation · What happens: get, begin, crystallise, do, supply · To what, where: scanty stream
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (houses, conversation), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 conversation | det |
| 10 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 crystallise | mark |
| 13 | crystallise | crystallise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 could | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 could | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 crystallise | advcl |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 could | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 stream | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stream | det |
| 22 | scanty | scanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stream | compound |
| 23 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obl |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 supplied | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 26 | commonplace | commonplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 world | compound |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 supplied | nsubj |
| 28 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 stream | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | houses = house | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the conversation | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | crystallise | to-infinitive | the conversation not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | infinitive | the conversation not said here | with the scanty stream | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | supply | participle · passive | the scanty stream | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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