Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 208
Could not all these bricks and pieces be as a wall of stone to prevail for him?
Who acts: bricks · What happens: be, prevail
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 (bricks), 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wall | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 all | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 bricks | det:predet |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 bricks | det |
| 5 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wall | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pieces | cc |
| 7 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bricks | conj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wall | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wall | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 prevail | mark |
| 15 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wall | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 prevail | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 wall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | all bricks and pieces | as a wall; of stone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prevail | to-infinitive | for earth | 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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