Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 18
It is a cap that no one need wish for, or laugh at.
Who acts: sport, that, one need wish · What happens: be, wish, laugh · To what, where: cap
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 (sport, that, one need wish), 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 cap | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cap | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cap | det |
| 4 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 wish | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wish | compound |
| 8 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wish | compound |
| 9 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cap | appos |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 laugh | mark |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laugh | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 laugh | cc |
| 13 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wish | acl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 laugh | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sport | a cap | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | laugh | infinitive | no one need wish not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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