Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 11
Nothing more is necessary, only to stir it."
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: be, stir · To what, where: tail
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 necessary | nsubj |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Nothing | amod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 necessary | cop |
| 4 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stir | punct |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 stir | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stir | mark |
| 8 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 necessary | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stir | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 necessary | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stir | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | tail | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
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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