Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 24
Most people have a best side to their characters, which they take care to show to the world.
Who acts: Most people, people · What happens: have, take, show · To what, where: best side, characters, world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (Most people, 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 side | amod |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 characters | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 characters | nmod:poss |
| 9 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 side | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 take | obj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 take | nsubj |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 characters | acl:relcl |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 show | mark |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 take | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Most people | a best side | to people's characters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | present | people | people's characters | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument which=Theme care=Destination | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | people not said here | the world | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to world=Recipient |
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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