Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 24
But after all, he had been born into the world, and the station of life had been chosen for him, therefore he must be content.
Who acts: boy · What happens: bear, choose, be · To what, where: all, world, station
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 born | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 born | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 chosen | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 chosen | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 station | det |
| 15 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 station | nmod |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 chosen | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 chosen | aux:pass |
| 20 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 born | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 chosen | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 content | punct |
| 24 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 28 content | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 content | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 content | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 content | cop |
| 28 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chosen | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · perfect · passive | all | the world | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | choose | past · perfect · passive | the station of life | for boy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is | must | boy | content, therefore property | tree rules |
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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