Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 17
I, on the other hand, made running the business of my life, and have become a cripple in the service.
Who acts: I · What happens: make, run, become · To what, where: other hand, business, cripple
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 8 made | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 made | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 business | det |
| 11 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 running | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 business | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 become | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 become | cc |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 become | aux |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 made | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cripple | det |
| 20 | cripple | cripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 become | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 service | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 service | det |
| 23 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cripple | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | I | the other hand | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | I not said here | the business of my life | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme business=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | become | present · perfect | I not said here | a cripple in the service | 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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