Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 22

You cannot invent anything, and yet you want to be a poet by Easter."

Who acts: You · What happens: not invent, want, be · To what, where: anything, poet

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 (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 invent	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 invent	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 invent	advmod
4	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 invent	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 want	cc
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 want	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 invent	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	14 poet	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 poet	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 poet	det
14	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	xcomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 Easter	case
16	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 poet	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 invent	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 invent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not invent	can	You	anything			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Result
2	want	present	you		yet		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a poet		by Easter	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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