Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 48
The hero of the piece would only play in a part containing points likely to bring down the applause of the house.
Who acts: hero, containing · What happens: play, contain, bring down · To what, where: part, points, applause
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 (hero, containing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 play | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 piece | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hero | nmod |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 play | aux |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 play | advmod |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 part | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 play | obl |
| 12 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 bring | csubj |
| 13 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 containing | obj |
| 14 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 16 bring | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 bring | mark |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 play | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 bring | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 applause | det |
| 19 | applause | applause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 applause | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | would | the hero of the piece | a part | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | contain | gerund | points | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot point=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring down | to-infinitive | containing | the applause of the house | likely property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent applause=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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