Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 29
Some one will make a mistake for certain and take the wrong ones--he will be a happy man.”
Who acts: one, Councillor · What happens: make, take, be · To what, where: mistake, wrong ones, happy man
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 (one, Councillor), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mistake | det |
| 6 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 certain | case |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ones | det |
| 12 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 take | obj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 man | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 man | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 man | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | some one | a mistake | for certain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent mistake=Product for certain=Asset | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | some one not said here | the wrong ones | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | future | Councillor | a happy man | 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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