Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 87
It is an innocent wish, and innocent wishes are sure to be fulfilled.
Who acts: carpet, innocent wishes · What happens: be, fulfil · To what, where: innocent wish
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carpet, innocent wishes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wish | det |
| 4 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wish | amod |
| 5 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sure | cc |
| 8 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wishes | amod |
| 9 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sure | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sure | cop |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wish | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fulfilled | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 14 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sure | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | carpet | a innocent wish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | innocent wishes | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fulfil | to-infinitive · passive | innocent wishes not said here | 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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