Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 2
He wanted to become one by Easter, and to marry, and to live by poetry.
Who acts: man · What happens: want, become, marry, live · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 become | mark |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 become | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Easter | case |
| 7 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 marry | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 marry | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 marry | mark |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 live | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 marry | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 poetry | case |
| 17 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | become not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | one | by Easter | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result | |||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | man not said here | by poetry | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by poetry=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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