Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 24
The director had to give a very merry piece, that the public might not too painfully miss the pretty Columbine and the agile Harlequin.
Who acts: director · What happens: have, give, miss · To what, where: merry piece, pretty Columbine
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (director), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 director | det |
| 2 | director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 piece | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 merry | advmod |
| 8 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 piece | amod |
| 9 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 miss | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 painfully | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 public | det |
| 13 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 painfully | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 painfully | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 painfully | advmod |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 painfully | advmod |
| 17 | painfully | painfully | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 miss | advcl |
| 18 | miss | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Columbine | det |
| 20 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Columbine | amod |
| 21 | Columbine | Columbine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 miss | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Harlequin | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Harlequin | det |
| 24 | agile | agile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Harlequin | amod |
| 25 | Harlequin | Harlequin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Columbine | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the director | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | the director not said here | a merry piece | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 3 | miss | present | the director not said here | the pretty Columbine and the agile Harlequin | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer columbine=Stimulus |
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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