Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 82
Steel can do so, but not silver.
Who acts: Steel · What happens: do, not silver
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 (Steel), 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 | Steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 silver | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 silver | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 silver | advmod |
| 8 | silver | silver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 do | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | Steel | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not silver | infinitive | Steel not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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