Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 3
To write poems, he knew, only consists in being able to invent something; but he could not invent anything.
Who acts: man · What happens: write, know, consist, be, invent, not invent · To what, where: poems, something, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 write | mark |
| 2 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 write | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 poems | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 consists | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 consists | advmod |
| 9 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 knew | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 able | case |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 consists | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 invent | mark |
| 14 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 invent | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 invent | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 invent | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 invent | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 invent | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 invent | advmod |
| 21 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 write | conj |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 invent | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 write | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | to-infinitive | poems | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | past | man | poems not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | consist | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | gerund | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | invent | to-infinitive | something | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Result | |||||
| 6 | not invent | could | man | anything | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Result |
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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