Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 92
It can be opened and explained, so that people may understand how the waltzes are formed, and why one note follows upon another."
Who acts: people, one note · What happens: open, explain, understand, form, follow · To what, where: flight, waltzes, another
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 (people, one note), 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 | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 explained | cc |
| 6 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 opened | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 understand | punct |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 understand | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 understand | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 understand | aux |
| 12 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 opened | parataxis |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 formed | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 waltzes | det |
| 15 | waltzes | waltz | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 formed | aux:pass |
| 17 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 understand | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 follows | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 follows | cc |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 follows | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 note | nummod |
| 22 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 follows | nsubj |
| 23 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 understand | conj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 another | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 follows | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | can · passive | flight | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | participle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | understand | may | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | form | present · passive | the waltzes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | follow | present | one note | another | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon another=Location |
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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