Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 79
Was he to be only the plaything of fortune?
Who acts: end · What happens: be · To what, where: plaything
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: who acts (end), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 plaything | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 plaything | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 plaything | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 plaything | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 plaything | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plaything | det |
| 7 | plaything | plaything | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fortune | case |
| 9 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plaything | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 plaything | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | end | the plaything | of fortune | 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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