Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 32
He imagines that one can propel things by means of steam."
Who acts: madman, one · What happens: imagine, propel, mean · To what, where: things
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madman, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 imagines | nsubj |
| 2 | imagines | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 propel | mark |
| 4 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 propel | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 propel | aux |
| 6 | propel | propel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 imagines | ccomp |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 propel | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 means | case |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 propel | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 steam | case |
| 11 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 imagines | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 imagines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | present | madman | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | propel | can | one | things | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | of steam | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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