Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 20
“You are a very free and happy being; we others are chained by the leg and held fast to our desk.”
Who acts: You, leg · What happens: be, chain, hold · To what, where: we
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, leg), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 free | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 free | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 free | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 free | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 free | advmod |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 happy | cc |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 free | conj |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 happy | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 chained | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 chained | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 we | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 chained | aux:pass |
| 14 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 free | parataxis |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 leg | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 leg | det |
| 17 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chained | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 held | cc |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 chained | conj |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 held | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 desk | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 desk | nmod:poss |
| 23 | desk | desk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 held | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 free | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | You not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | chain in a quote | present · passive | the leg | we | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hold in a quote | past | the leg not said here | to our desk; fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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