Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 4
It was built entirely of porcelain, and very costly, but so delicate and brittle that whoever touched it was obliged to be careful.
Who acts: whoever · What happens: build, touch, oblige, be · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whoever), 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 | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 3 built | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 porcelain | case |
| 6 | porcelain | porcelain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 costly | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 costly | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 costly | advmod |
| 10 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 built | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 delicate | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 delicate | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 delicate | advmod |
| 14 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 costly | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brittle | cc |
| 16 | brittle | brittle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 delicate | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 touched | mark |
| 18 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 touched | nsubj |
| 19 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brittle | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 obliged | aux:pass |
| 22 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 touched | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 careful | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 careful | cop |
| 25 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 obliged | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | palace | of porcelain; entirely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | touch | past | whoever | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | palace | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | careful 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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