Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 4
"One can always get actors if one makes use of what one has," observed grandpapa.
Who acts: One · What happens: get, make, have, observe · To what, where: actors, use, observed grandpapa
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | actors | actor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 makes | mark |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | advcl |
| 10 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 use | nmod |
| 13 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grandpapa | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 observed | punct |
| 17 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 grandpapa | amod |
| 18 | grandpapa | grandpapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | can | One | actors | always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer actor=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | one | use | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | one | observed grandpapa | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandpapa=Patient | ||||
| 4 | observe | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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