Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 71
They are wicked people only who can never obtain a glimpse of fairies.
Who acts: elves, wicked people · What happens: be, not obtain, glimpse · To what, where: wicked people, glimpse, fairies
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 (elves, wicked people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 people | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 people | cop |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 who | advmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 obtain | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 obtain | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 obtain | advmod |
| 9 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 people | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 glimpse | det |
| 11 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obtain | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fairies | case |
| 13 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 glimpse | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | elves = elf | wicked people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not obtain | can | wicked people | a glimpse of fairies | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glimpse | fairies | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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