Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 31
If he is a true genius, he can bear the sharp voice of censure.
Who acts: anger · What happens: be, bear · To what, where: true genius, sharp voice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 genius | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 genius | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 genius | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 genius | det |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 genius | amod |
| 6 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bear | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 genius | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bear | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bear | aux |
| 10 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 12 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bear | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 censure | case |
| 15 | censure | censure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 voice | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | anger | a true genius | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | can | anger | the sharp voice of censure | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=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: «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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