Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 27
"Oh, we are very willing to do so, but we cannot," said Hjalmar's letters; "we are so wretchedly made."
Who acts: we, letters, Hjalmar · What happens: be, do, say, make, letter · To what, where: we · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, letters, Hjalmar), 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 | _ | 7 willing | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 willing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 willing | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 willing | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 willing | advmod |
| 7 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 willing | xcomp |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 can | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 can | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 can | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 willing | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 can | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 willing | conj |
| 19 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 letters | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Hjalmar | case |
| 21 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 made | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | aux:pass |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 made | advmod |
| 27 | wretchedly | wretchedly | ADV | _ | 28 made | advmod |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 willing | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | can · present | we | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Hjalmar's letters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · passive | we | wretchedly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | letter | Hjalmar | nom letter «communication 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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