Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 13
It is of great use, for it contains all that a man requires to know; the names of the preachers at the church, and the new books which are published; where houses, servants, clothes, and provisions may be obtained.
Who acts: Intelligencer, man · What happens: be, contain, require, know, publish, obtain · To what, where: all, new books, houses, preachers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Intelligencer, man), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 use | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 use | amod |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 contains | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 contains | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 contains | nsubj |
| 9 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | parataxis |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 contains | obj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 requires | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 requires | nsubj |
| 14 | requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 contains | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 requires | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 names | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 names | det |
| 19 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 preachers | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 preachers | det |
| 22 | preachers | preacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 names | nmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 church | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 church | det |
| 25 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 preachers | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 published | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 published | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 books | det |
| 29 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 books | amod |
| 30 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 published | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 published | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 published | aux:pass |
| 33 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 use | acl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 obtained | punct |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 obtained | advmod |
| 36 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 servants | punct |
| 38 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 houses | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 clothes | punct |
| 40 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 36 houses | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 obtained | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 obtained | cc |
| 43 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 obtained | aux |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 obtained | aux:pass |
| 46 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 published | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Intelligencer | of great use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contain | present | Intelligencer | all | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot all=Theme | ||||
| 3 | require | present | a man | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | a man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | publish | present · passive | the new books | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 6 | obtain | may · passive | houses and servants and clothes | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | name | the preachers at the church | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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