Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 79
But one must look round in it, and not stay in one spot."
Who acts: one · What happens: look round, not stay · To what, where: one spot
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 look | cc |
| 2 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 look | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stay | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 stay | advmod |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 look | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 spot | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 spot | nummod |
| 14 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stay | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | must | one | in world; round property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not stay | infinitive | one not said here | one spot | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spot=Location |
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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