Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 72
Lieutenant, love, and lack of money--that is a symbolic triangle, or much the same as the half of the shattered die of Fortune.
Who acts: that · What happens: be, lack · To what, where: symbolic triangle, money
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | Lieutenant | Lieutenant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 love | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
| 3 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lack | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lack | cc |
| 6 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 love | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 money | case |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lack | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 triangle | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 triangle | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 triangle | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 triangle | det |
| 13 | symbolic | symbolic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 triangle | amod |
| 14 | triangle | triangle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 love | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 same | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 same | cc |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 same | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 same | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 triangle | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 half | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 half | det |
| 22 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 same | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 die | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 die | det |
| 25 | shattered | shattered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 die | amod |
| 26 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 half | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Fortune | case |
| 28 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 die | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | a symbolic triangle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | that not said here | as the half of the shattered die of Fortune | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lack | money | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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