Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 145
Why, it changes in every day's journey we make.
Who acts: language, we, day · What happens: change, make, journey · To what, where: journey
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (language, we, day), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 changes | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 changes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 changes | nsubj |
| 4 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 journey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 day | case |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changes | obl |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 journey | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | language | every day's journey | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | present | we | every day's journey not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product | ||||
| 3 | journey | every day | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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