Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 10
This is what he demanded of the world in general, namely, patent blacking, and he got nothing but grease.
Who acts: This, blacking · What happens: be, demand, get · To what, where: general namely patent blacking, nothing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, blacking), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 demanded | nsubj |
| 5 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 demanded | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 blacking | case |
| 10 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blacking | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 general | punct |
| 12 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blacking | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 namely | punct |
| 14 | patent | patent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blacking | amod |
| 15 | blacking | blacking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 demanded | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 got | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 got | obj |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 grease | cc |
| 22 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nothing | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | blacking | general namely patent blacking | of the world | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | get | past | blacking | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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