Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 148
And what about the genius of the family--the fourth brother--who wanted to invent something new and original?
Who acts: fourth brother · What happens: want, invent · To what, where: something
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 (fourth brother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 what | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 genius | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 genius | det |
| 5 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 family | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 family | det |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 genius | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 brother | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brother | det |
| 11 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 brother | amod |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 genius | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 wanted | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 wanted | nsubj |
| 15 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brother | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 invent | mark |
| 17 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wanted | xcomp |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 invent | obj |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 something | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 original | cc |
| 21 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 new | conj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the fourth brother | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | invent not said to happen | to-infinitive | the fourth brother not said here | something | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Result |
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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