Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 15
His name is very difficult; you would not be able to pronounce it, so it may be omitted.
Who acts: name, you, man · What happens: be, not be, pronounce, omit, name · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, you, man), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 difficult | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 difficult | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 difficult | advmod |
| 5 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 able | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 difficult | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pronounce | mark |
| 13 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pronounce | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 omitted | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 omitted | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 omitted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 omitted | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 omitted | aux:pass |
| 20 | omitted | omit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 difficult | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | man's name | difficult property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | would | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pronounce | to-infinitive | you not said here | name | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | omit | may · passive | name | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | name | man | nom name «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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