Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 120
We cannot control our wills, nor the feelings of our hearts, by the force of custom.
Who acts: We, our · What happens: not control, will · To what, where: wills
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, our), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 control | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 control | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 control | advmod |
| 4 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wills | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wills | will | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 control | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feelings | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 feelings | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 feelings | det |
| 10 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 control | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hearts | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 feelings | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 force | punct |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 force | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 force | det |
| 17 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 control | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 custom | case |
| 19 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 force | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 control | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not control | can | We | our wills | by the force of custom | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent will=Theme | |||
| 2 | will | our | nom will «cognition transitive»: poss=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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