Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 19
One must be able to adapt one's self to time and circumstances, and if there is a law that the 'maiden' is to be called 'hand-rammer,' why, she must be called 'hand-rammer,' and no pouting will avail, for everything has its measure."
Who acts: One, pouting, everything · What happens: be, adapt, call, avail, have, measure · To what, where: one, law, hand rammer, elder, measure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, pouting, everything), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 able | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 adapt | mark |
| 6 | adapt | adapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 adapt | obj |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 one | case |
| 9 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adapt | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adapt | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 circumstances | cc |
| 13 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 time | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 law | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 is | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 law | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 law | det |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 able | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 maiden | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 maiden | det |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 maiden | punct |
| 24 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 called | advcl |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 maiden | punct |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 called | aux:pass |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 called | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 called | aux:pass |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 law | parataxis |
| 30 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 29 called | xcomp |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rammer | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 hand | punct |
| 33 | rammer | rammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 called | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
| 36 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 able | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 called | punct |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 called | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 called | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 called | aux:pass |
| 41 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 able | conj |
| 42 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 41 called | xcomp |
| 43 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 rammer | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 hand | punct |
| 45 | rammer | rammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 called | xcomp |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 avail | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 avail | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 avail | cc |
| 49 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 50 pouting | det |
| 50 | pouting | pouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 avail | nsubj |
| 51 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 avail | aux |
| 52 | avail | avail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | parataxis |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 has | punct |
| 54 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 56 has | mark |
| 55 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 56 has | nsubj |
| 56 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 avail | conj |
| 57 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 measure | nmod:poss |
| 58 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 has | obj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | One | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | adapt | to-infinitive | One not said here | one | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | One not said here | a law | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | hand rammer | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | call | must · passive | elder | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | avail | future | no pouting | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | have | present | everything | pouting's measure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient | ||||
| 8 | measure | pouting | nom measure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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