Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 73
Much shall be changed for the better while I am there."
Who acts: I · What happens: change, be
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 (I), 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 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 changed | aux:pass |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 better | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 better | det |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 changed | obl |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 there | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 there | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 there | cop |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 better | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | shall · passive | for the better | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | there property | tree rules |
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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