Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 81
But he could not weave the fibres together, nor did he endeavour to do so.
Who acts: father · What happens: not weave, endeavour, do · To what, where: fibres
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 weave | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 weave | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 weave | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 weave | advmod |
| 5 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fibres | det |
| 7 | fibres | fibre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 weave | obj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 weave | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 endeavour | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 endeavour | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 endeavour | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 endeavour | nsubj |
| 13 | endeavour | endeavour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 weave | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 endeavour | xcomp |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 do | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 weave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not weave | could | father | the fibres | together property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=Product | |||
| 2 | endeavour | past · do-support | father | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | father not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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