Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 174
The stars cannot be taken down from the sky and polished; they are spheres like our earth, which is a good thing for them."
Who acts: ideas, spheres · What happens: not take down, polish, be · To what, where: stars, sky, spheres, good thing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ideas, spheres), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stars | det |
| 2 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 taken | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 taken | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 sky | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 polished | cc |
| 12 | polished | polish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 spheres | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spheres | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 spheres | cop |
| 16 | spheres | sphere | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 polished | obj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 earth | nmod:poss |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spheres | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thing | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 thing | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 thing | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thing | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 thing | amod |
| 25 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spheres | appos |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thing | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take down | can · passive | the stars | the sky | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | polish | past | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | ideas = idea | spheres | like our earth | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | spheres | a good thing | for ideas = idea | tree rules |
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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