Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 187
He's only a common sailor, and therefore the law must take its course."
Who acts: husband, law · What happens: be, take · To what, where: common sailor, course
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, law), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sailor | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sailor | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 sailor | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sailor | det |
| 5 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sailor | amod |
| 6 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 9 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 13 take | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 law | det |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sailor | parataxis |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 course | nmod:poss |
| 15 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailor | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | husband | a common sailor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | must | the law | sailor's course | therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
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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