Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 8
Now the world is written out, and what can I write poetry about?"
Who acts: I · What happens: write out, write · To what, where: world, poetry
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 (I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 written | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 world | det |
| 3 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 written | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 written | aux:pass |
| 5 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 written | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 write | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 write | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 write | obj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 write | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 write | nsubj |
| 12 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 written | parataxis |
| 13 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 write | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 write | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 written | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write out | present · passive | the world | now | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write | can | I | poetry | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient poetry=Topic |
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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