Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 65
The man who thinks he can solve the problem is named Robert Fulton.
Who acts: man · What happens: think, solve, name · To what, where: problem, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 named | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 thinks | nsubj |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 solve | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 solve | aux |
| 7 | solve | solve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thinks | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 problem | det |
| 9 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 solve | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 named | aux:pass |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 named | xcomp |
| 13 | Fulton | Fulton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Robert | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | the man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | solve | can | man | the problem | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic | ||||
| 3 | name | present · passive | the man | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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