Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 11
A man certainly cannot see much of the world if he is tied up in a bag, and this was really the shilling's fate.
Who acts: man, this · What happens: not see, tie up, be · To what, where: much, man, bag, fate
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, this), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 see | advmod |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 much | nmod |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 tied | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tied | aux:pass |
| 14 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 see | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 tied | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bag | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bag | det |
| 18 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fate | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fate | cc |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 fate | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fate | cop |
| 23 | really | really | ADV | _ | 27 fate | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 shilling | det |
| 25 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fate | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 shilling | case |
| 27 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | can | a man | much of the world | certainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | tie up a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | man | a bag | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | the shilling's fate | 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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