Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 3

Every one of his movements is comic, and is sure to throw the house into convulsions of laughter; and yet there is no art in it all--it is complete nature.

Who acts: one, art, public · What happens: be, throw, move, convulse · To what, where: house, convulsions, complete nature, laughter

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 (one, art, public), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comic	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 movements	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 movements	nmod:poss
5	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 comic	cop
7	comic	comic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sure	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sure	cc
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sure	cop
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 comic	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 throw	mark
13	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sure	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 convulsions	case
17	convulsions	convulsion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 throw	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 laughter	case
19	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 convulsions	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 is	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 is	cc
22	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 is	advmod
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 is	expl
24	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 comic	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 art	det
26	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	nsubj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 art	nmod
29	all	all	ADV	_	24 is	advmod
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 nature	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 nature	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 nature	cop
33	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 nature	amod
34	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comic	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 comic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	every one of public's movements				comic property	tree rules
2	is	present	every one of public's movements not said here				sure property	tree rules
3	throw	to-infinitive	every one of public's movements not said here	the house			into convulsions of laughter result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer house=Theme into convulsion=Result
4	be	present	no art in laughter		there	yet	all property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	art	complete nature				tree rules
6	move		public					nom movement «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	convulse			laughter				nom convulsion «state transitive»: of=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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