Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 41
It could only think of the poor captive bird, for which it could do nothing.
Who acts: sun · What happens: think, do · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | 4 think | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bird | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bird | amod |
| 8 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bird | amod |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 do | obl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | conj |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | could | sun | of the poor captive bird | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | could | sun | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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