Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 107
I will create a new style of building, and introduce a plan for erecting houses suitable to the climate, with material easily obtained in the country, and thus suit national feeling and the developments of the age, besides building a storey for my own genius."
Who acts: I, plan · What happens: create, introduce, erect, obtain, suit, build · To what, where: new style, plan, houses, material, country, national feeling
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, plan), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 create | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 create | aux |
| 3 | create | create | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 style | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 style | amod |
| 6 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 create | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 building | case |
| 8 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 style | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 introduce | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 introduce | cc |
| 11 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 create | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 plan | det |
| 13 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 introduce | obj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 erecting | mark |
| 15 | erecting | erect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 plan | acl |
| 16 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 erecting | obj |
| 17 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 erecting | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 climate | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 climate | det |
| 20 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 suitable | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 material | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 material | case |
| 23 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 introduce | obl |
| 24 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 25 obtained | advmod |
| 25 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 material | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 country | det |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 obtained | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 suit | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 suit | cc |
| 31 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 32 suit | advmod |
| 32 | suit | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 create | conj |
| 33 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 feeling | amod |
| 34 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 suit | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 developments | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 developments | det |
| 37 | developments | development | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 feeling | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 age | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 age | det |
| 40 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 developments | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 building | punct |
| 42 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 43 building | mark |
| 43 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 suit | advcl |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 storey | det |
| 45 | storey | storey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 building | obj |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 genius | case |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 genius | nmod:poss |
| 48 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 genius | amod |
| 49 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 building | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 create | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 create | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | future | I | a new style of building | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Result | ||||
| 2 | introduce | infinitive | I not said here | a plan | with material | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent plan=Patient with material=Instrument | |||
| 3 | erect | gerund | a plan not said here | houses | suitable property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | |||
| 4 | obtain | participle | material not said here | the country | easily property | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 5 | suit | present | I not said here | national feeling and the developments of the age | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | build | gerund | I not said here | a storey | for my own genius | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent storey=Product for genius=Asset | |||
| 7 | develop | the age | nom development «act transitive»: of=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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