Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 13
No one can attempt to disguise family descent.
Who acts: one · What happens: attempt, disguise · To what, where: family descent
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attempt | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 attempt | aux |
| 4 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 disguise | mark |
| 6 | disguise | disguise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 attempt | xcomp |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 descent | compound |
| 8 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disguise | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attempt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | can | no one | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | disguise not said to happen | to-infinitive | no one not said here | family descent | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme descent=Destination |
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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