Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 112
But though he had been endowed with the power of falling into decay from rust when he pleased, he did not make use of it.
Who acts: power, gift · What happens: endow, fall, not make, use · To what, where: gift, decay, use
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, gift), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 make | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 endowed | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 endowed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 endowed | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 endowed | aux:pass |
| 6 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 make | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 power | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 power | det |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 endowed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 falling | mark |
| 11 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 power | acl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 decay | case |
| 13 | decay | decay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 falling | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 rust | case |
| 15 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 decay | nmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 pleased | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pleased | nsubj |
| 18 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 endowed | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 endowed | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 make | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 make | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 make | advmod |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 use | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endow | past · perfect · passive | gift | with the power | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with power=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | the power not said here | into decay from rust result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into decay=Result | ||||
| 3 | not make | past · do-support | gift | use of use | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product | ||||
| 4 | use | use | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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