Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, sentence 21
What One Can Invent The Wicked Prince The Wild Swans The Will-o-the-Wisp in the Town, Says the Wild Woman The Story of the Wind The Windmill
Who acts: One, Wicked Prince · What happens: invent, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Wicked Prince), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 Invent | obj |
| 2 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Invent | nsubj |
| 3 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 Invent | aux |
| 4 | Invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Says | ccomp |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 6 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Prince | amod |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Says | nsubj |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Swans | det |
| 9 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Swans | compound |
| 10 | Swans | Swan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Prince | conj |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Wisp | det |
| 12 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 Wisp | aux |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wisp | punct |
| 14 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 18 Wisp | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 o | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Wisp | det |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 the | punct |
| 18 | Wisp | Wisp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Swans | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Town | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Town | det |
| 21 | Town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Wisp | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wisp | punct |
| 23 | Says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Woman | det |
| 25 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Woman | compound |
| 26 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Says | nsubj |
| 27 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Story | det |
| 28 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Woman | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Wind | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Wind | det |
| 31 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Story | nmod |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Windmill | det |
| 33 | Windmill | Windmill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Wind | appos |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | can | One | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Result | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Wicked Prince and the Wild Swans of the Wisp in the Town | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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