Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 74
It's a difficult step to take, and yet it must be taken.
Who acts: jewel · What happens: be, take · To what, where: difficult step, it
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), 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 | 5 step | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 step | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 step | det |
| 4 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 step | amod |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 step | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taken | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 taken | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 step | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 step | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | jewel | a difficult step | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | take | must · passive | it | yet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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