Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 107
Be a man, as all others are, and don't go on living in ideals, for that is what drives men crazy.
Who acts: man, others, that · What happens: be, not go, live, drive · To what, where: ideals, men
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, others, that), 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 | Be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Be | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 are | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 are | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 others | det |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 are | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Be | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 go | advmod |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 are | conj |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 15 living | mark |
| 15 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 go | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 ideals | case |
| 17 | ideals | ideal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 living | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 what | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 what | case |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 what | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | cop |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 go | conj |
| 23 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 drives | obj |
| 25 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 drives | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | infinitive | a man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | does | present | all others | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not go | infinitive · do-support | all others not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | live | gerund | all others not said here | ideals | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ideal=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | drive | present | men | crazy property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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