Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 53
We can't do without that; nature alone is not enough for one."
Who acts: We, nature · What happens: not do, not be
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 (We, nature), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 enough | punct |
| 8 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enough | nsubj |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 nature | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 enough | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 enough | advmod |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 do | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 enough | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | can | We | without that | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | nature | for one; enough property | tree rules |
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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