Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 65
I am a happy director; for none of my company ever grumble, nor the public either, for I always make them merry.
Who acts: I, none · What happens: be, grumble, make · To what, where: happy director, public, gods
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 (I, none), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 director | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 director | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 director | det |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 director | amod |
| 5 | director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 grumble | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 none | case |
| 8 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 13 grumble | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 company | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 company | nmod:poss |
| 11 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 none | nmod |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 grumble | advmod |
| 13 | grumble | grumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 director | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 public | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 public | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 public | det |
| 17 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grumble | obl |
| 18 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 grumble | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 make | nsubj |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 make | advmod |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 grumble | parataxis |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 make | obj |
| 25 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 make | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 director | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a happy director | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grumble speech: other | infinitive | none | the public | ever | either property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | make | present | I | gods = god | always, merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
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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