Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 11
A man may live a whole life in one single hour.
Who acts: man · What happens: live · To what, where: whole life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 life | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hour | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hour | nummod |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hour | amod |
| 11 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | may | a man | a whole life | hour | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
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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