Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 14
How can such a creature be allowed to live, and wander about upon the roofs.
Who acts: creature · What happens: allow, live, wander · To what, where: creature, roofs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 allowed | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 allowed | aux |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 creature | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 allowed | aux:pass |
| 7 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wander | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 allowed | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wander | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wander | cc |
| 12 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 wander | advmod |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 roofs | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roofs | det |
| 16 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wander | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wander | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | can · passive | such creature | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | such creature not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wander | present | the roofs | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon roof=Trajectory |
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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