Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 109

Nationality may assert itself until it becomes affectation, and the developments of a century may run wild, as youth often does.

Who acts: Nationality, developments, youth · What happens: assert, become, run, do, develop · To what, where: Nationality, affectation, century

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 (Nationality, developments, youth), 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	Nationality	nationality	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assert	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 assert	aux
3	assert	assert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 assert	obj
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 becomes	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 becomes	nsubj
7	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 assert	advcl
8	affectation	affectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 becomes	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 run	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 run	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 developments	det
12	developments	development	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 run	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 century	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 century	det
15	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 developments	nmod
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 run	aux
17	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 assert	parataxis
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 run	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 does	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 does	mark
21	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 does	nsubj
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 does	advmod
23	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 run	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assert	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	assert	may	Nationality	Nationality		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
2	become	present	Nationality	affectation		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	run	may	the developments of a century		wild property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	present	youth		often property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	develop			a century		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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