Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 25
How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is.
Who acts: Power · What happens: oblige, serve, get, be · To what, where: men, Power, world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Power), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 obliged | advmod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 obliged | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 animals | cc |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 obliged | aux:pass |
| 6 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 serve | mark |
| 8 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 obliged | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 serve | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 well | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 got | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 obliged | conj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 barefooted | punct |
| 21 | barefooted | barefooted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 world | amod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 is | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 is | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 barefooted | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | present · passive | men and animals | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | Power | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | get | present · perfect | Power | the world | well property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through world=Destination | |||
| 4 | be | present | Power | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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