Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 57
It is living wicked men who do harm to others.
Who acts: dead, wicked men · What happens: live, do · To what, where: wicked men, harm
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dead, wicked 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 living | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 living | aux |
| 3 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 living | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 men | acl:relcl |
| 8 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 others | case |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · progressive | dead | wicked men | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | ||||
| 2 | do | present | wicked men | harm | to others | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
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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