Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 55
It is not so easy to nibble one's self into a poet, there are so many things to get through.
Who acts: many things · What happens: not be, nibble, be, get through · To what, where: self, poet
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many things), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 easy | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 easy | advmod |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 nibble | mark |
| 7 | nibble | nibble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | csubj |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 self | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 one | case |
| 10 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nibble | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 poet | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 poet | det |
| 13 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nibble | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 are | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 are | expl |
| 16 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 nibble | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 many | advmod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 are | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 get | mark |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 things | acl |
| 22 | through | through | ADV | _ | 21 get | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | nibble | to-infinitive | one's self | a poet | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent self=Patient | ||||
| 3 | does | present | many things | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get through | to-infinitive | many things not said here | through property | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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