Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 18
It's something which one carries about for one's own pleasure, and that makes other people angry.
Who acts: jewel, that, one · What happens: be, carry, make, please · To what, where: something, other people
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 (jewel, that, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 something | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 something | cop |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 carries | nsubj |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carries | nsubj |
| 6 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 something | acl:relcl |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 carries | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 pleasure | case |
| 9 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 one | case |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pleasure | amod |
| 12 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carries | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 makes | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 makes | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 makes | nsubj |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 carries | conj |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 people | amod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 makes | obj |
| 19 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 makes | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | jewel | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | for one's own pleasure; about property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | present | that | other people | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | |||
| 4 | please | one | nom pleasure «feeling 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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