Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 102
A great concert was to take place, and that is why the baron's young son had brought his willow flute with him; but he could not make it sound, nor could his father, and therefore the flute was good for nothing.
Who acts: great concert, that, amusement, flute · What happens: be, bring, not make, not sound · To what, where: young son, flute
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great concert, that, amusement, flute), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 concert | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 concert | amod |
| 3 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 why | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 why | cc |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 why | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 why | cop |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 brought | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 baron | det |
| 14 | baron | baron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 baron | case |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 son | amod |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 take | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 flute | nmod:poss |
| 21 | willow | willow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flute | amod |
| 22 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 flute | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 make | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 make | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 make | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 make | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 make | advmod |
| 30 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 make | obj |
| 32 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 make | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 father | punct |
| 34 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 37 father | cc |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 father | aux |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 father | nmod:poss |
| 37 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 good | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 good | cc |
| 40 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 44 good | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 flute | det |
| 42 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 good | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 good | cop |
| 44 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 father | conj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 nothing | case |
| 46 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 44 good | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a great concert | take property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the baron's young son | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination flute=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not make | could | amusement | flute | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not sound | infinitive | flute not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the flute | for nothing; good, therefore property | tree rules |
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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