Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 6
Not all can be born cucumbers; there must be other things, too.
What happens: not bear, be · To what, where: all, other things
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 born | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 born | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | cucumbers | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 born | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 things | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 be | expl |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 be | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 things | cop |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 born | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 too | punct |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 things | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | can · passive | all | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary cucumber=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | other things | 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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