Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 38
If he had been allowed to get in, he would have escaped the clutches of the poets.
Who acts: talk · What happens: allow, get in, escape, clutch · To what, where: talk, clutches, poets
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (talk), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 allowed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 escaped | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 escaped | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 escaped | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 escaped | aux |
| 13 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clutches | det |
| 15 | clutches | clutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 escaped | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 poets | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 poets | det |
| 18 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 clutches | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | talk | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get in not said to happen | to-infinitive | talk not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | escape | would · perfect | talk | the clutches of the poets | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme clutch=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | clutch | the poets | nom clutch «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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