Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 148

And then men are not able to fly, moreover.

Who acts: men · What happens: not be, fly

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 (men), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 able	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 able	advmod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 able	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 able	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 able	advmod
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fly	mark
8	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moreover	punct
10	moreover	moreover	ADV	_	8 fly	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	men				then	able property	tree rules
2	fly	to-infinitive	men not said here					moreover property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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