Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 13
He wished to put the branch back in the place it had been broken off, but it is not possible to put everything in the right place; therefore he stuck the branch into the soft ground.
Who acts: child, place, it · What happens: wish, put back, break off, not be, put, stick · To what, where: branch, place, everything, right place, soft ground
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 (child, place, it), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 put | mark |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wished | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 branch | det |
| 6 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 broken | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 broken | aux:pass |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 broken | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 possible | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 possible | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 possible | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 possible | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 possible | advmod |
| 21 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wished | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 put | mark |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 possible | csubj |
| 24 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 put | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 27 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 place | amod |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 stuck | punct |
| 30 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 32 stuck | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stuck | nsubj |
| 32 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wished | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 branch | det |
| 34 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stuck | obj |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 ground | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ground | det |
| 37 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ground | amod |
| 38 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stuck | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | child | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put back not said to happen | to-infinitive | child not said here | the branch | the place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 3 | break off | past · perfect · passive | the place not said here | place | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | it | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put | to-infinitive | everything | the right place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in place=Destination | ||||
| 6 | stick | past | child | the branch | the soft ground | therefore property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme into ground=Destination |
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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