Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 211
No, it was only habit that made him take this position.
Who acts: tearless, habit, evil · What happens: be, make, take · To what, where: habit, evil, position
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 (tearless, habit, evil), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 habit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 habit | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 habit | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 habit | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 habit | advmod |
| 6 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 habit | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | xcomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 position | det |
| 12 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 habit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tearless | habit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | habit | evil | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | evil not said here | this position | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=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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