Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 21
For instance, why a piece of iron which is rubbed on a cylinder, should become magnetic.
Who acts: piece · What happens: rub, become · To what, where: iron, cylinder
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 instance | case |
| 2 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 become | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 instance | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 become | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 piece | det |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 become | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 iron | case |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piece | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 rubbed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rubbed | aux:pass |
| 11 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 iron | acl:relcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 cylinder | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cylinder | det |
| 14 | cylinder | cylinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rubbed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 piece | punct |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 become | aux |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 become | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | present · passive | iron | a cylinder | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on cylinder=Destination | ||||
| 2 | become | should | a piece of iron | for instance; magnetic property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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