Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 212
Yes, some succeed while they are asleep.
Who acts: some, sparrows · What happens: succeed, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, sparrows), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 succeed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 succeed | nsubj |
| 4 | succeed | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 asleep | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asleep | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asleep | cop |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 succeed | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | present | some | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | sparrows = sparrow | asleep property | tree rules |
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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