Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 14
That is all the time the busy race can devote to the whole of England and Scotland.
Who acts: That, busy race · What happens: be, devote · To what, where: time, whole
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, busy race), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 race | det |
| 7 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 race | amod |
| 8 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 devote | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 devote | aux |
| 10 | devote | devote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 whole | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 whole | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 devote | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 England | case |
| 15 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 whole | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Scotland | cc |
| 17 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 England | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | all time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | devote | can | the busy race | all time not said here | to the whole goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent time=Theme to whole=Goal |
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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