Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 3
But when persons reside in a place and get used to it, they can always find something beautiful in it,--something for which they long, even in the most charming spot in the world which is not home.
Who acts: persons, charming spot · What happens: reside, use, find, long, not be · To what, where: place, something
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 (persons, charming spot), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 find | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 reside | advmod |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reside | nsubj |
| 4 | reside | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reside | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 used | cc |
| 9 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 used | aux:pass |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 reside | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 used | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reside | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 find | advmod |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 something | amod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beautiful | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 something | punct |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 something | punct |
| 24 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 something | appos |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 long | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 long | nsubj |
| 28 | long | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 something | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 spot | punct |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 35 spot | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 spot | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 spot | det |
| 33 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 35 spot | advmod |
| 34 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 spot | compound |
| 35 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 world | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 world | det |
| 38 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 spot | nmod |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 home | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 home | cop |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 home | advmod |
| 42 | home | home | ADV | _ | 35 spot | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reside | present | persons | a place | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 2 | use | infinitive · passive | persons not said here | place | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | find | can | persons = person | something | always property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | |||
| 4 | long | present | persons = person | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for which=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not is | present | the charming spot in the world | home property | tree rules |
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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