Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 78
And was this one of God's creatures, fashioned in His own likeness, to have no better fate?
What happens: be, have · To what, where: one, better fate
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 one | cc |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 creatures | case |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 creatures | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 God | case |
| 8 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fashioned | punct |
| 10 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creatures | amod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 likeness | case |
| 12 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 likeness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 likeness | amod |
| 14 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fashioned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 one | parataxis |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 fate | det |
| 19 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 fate | amod |
| 20 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this one | of God's creatures | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | no better fate | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=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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