Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 43
It's only the old, old story, But the piece is repeated each day.'"
Who acts: genius · What happens: be, repeat · To what, where: old old story, piece
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 (genius), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 story | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 story | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 story | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 repeated | punct |
| 10 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 repeated | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 repeated | aux:pass |
| 14 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 story | parataxis |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 repeated | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | genius | the old old story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | repeat | present · passive | the piece | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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