Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 19

"It is just as if some one was practising a piece that he could not manage; it is always the same piece.

Who acts: foreign, music · What happens: be, not manage · To what, where: same piece

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreign, music), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 practising	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 practising	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 practising	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	10 practising	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 practising	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 practising	mark
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 practising	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 practising	aux
10	practising	practise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 manage	csubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 piece	det
12	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 practising	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 manage	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 manage	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 manage	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 manage	advmod
17	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 piece	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 piece	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 piece	cop
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 piece	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 piece	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 piece	amod
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 manage	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · progressive	foreign		practise property	tree rules
2	not manage in a quote	could	music			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	foreign	the same piece	always property	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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