Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 60
In two years the building itself will put on a proper appearance, there will be a complete metamorphosis in beauty and improvement.
Who acts: building · What happens: put · To what, where: proper appearance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (building), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 building | det |
| 5 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | nsubj |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 5 building | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | aux |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 appearance | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 appearance | det |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 appearance | amod |
| 12 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 be | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 be | expl |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 be | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 put | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 metamorphosis | det |
| 18 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 metamorphosis | amod |
| 19 | metamorphosis | metamorphosis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 be | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 beauty | case |
| 21 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 metamorphosis | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 improvement | cc |
| 23 | improvement | improvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beauty | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | future | the building building | a proper appearance | year | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on appearance=Destination |
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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