Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 58
He was determined not to play the dumb lover as both the gingerbread cakes had done; the story was a good lesson to him.
Who acts: nearer, story · What happens: be, not play, do · To what, where: dumb lover, gingerbread cakes, good lesson, nearer
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 (nearer, story), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 determined | cop |
| 3 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 play | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 play | mark |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determined | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lover | det |
| 8 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lover | amod |
| 9 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 play | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 11 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 16 done | cc:preconj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cakes | det |
| 13 | gingerbread | gingerbread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cakes | compound |
| 14 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 done | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 play | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 lesson | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lesson | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lesson | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lesson | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lesson | amod |
| 23 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 determined | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lesson | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | nearer = near | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not play | to-infinitive | nearer = near not said here | the dumb lover | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect · passive | the gingerbread cakes | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the story | a good lesson | nearer = near | 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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