Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 27
The present time is good, it is the best of times; but you have not the right way of looking at it.
Who acts: present time, poet, you, right way · What happens: be, have, look · To what, where: right way
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 (present time, poet, you, right way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 best | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 best | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 best | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 best | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 good | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 best | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | parataxis |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 way | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 looking | mark |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 way | acl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looking | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the present time | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | poet | time | good property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | you | the right way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | the right way not said here | at poet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
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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