Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 10
It's a pity one can't read the first volume of it, because it is written in a language that we don't understand.
Who acts: romance, we · What happens: not be, write, not understand · To what, where: romance, language
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (romance, we), 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 | 8 read | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 read | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | compound |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 read | nsubj |
| 6 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 read | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 read | advmod |
| 8 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 volume | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 volume | amod |
| 11 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 read | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 volume | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 written | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 written | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 written | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 written | aux:pass |
| 18 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 read | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 language | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 language | det |
| 21 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 written | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 understand | mark |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 understand | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 understand | aux |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 understand | advmod |
| 26 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 language | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | can · present | romance | read property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | present · passive | romance | a language | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in language=Destination | ||||
| 3 | not understand | present · do-support | we | a language not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=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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