Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 179
But he must manage, in the course of the year, to lead three hundred and sixty-five people into a bad way, and in a grand style, too.
Who acts: person · What happens: manage, lead · To what, where: course, hundred people, bad way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 manage | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 manage | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 manage | aux |
| 4 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 course | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 course | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 course | det |
| 8 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 manage | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 course | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lead | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 lead | mark |
| 14 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 manage | conj |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hundred | compound |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 people | nummod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 five | cc |
| 18 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 five | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 sixty | punct |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hundred | conj |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lead | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 24 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lead | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 style | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 style | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 style | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 style | det |
| 30 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 style | amod |
| 31 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 manage | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 too | punct |
| 33 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 manage | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | must | person | the course of the year | in a grand style | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in course=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | lead | to-infinitive | person not said here | hundred people | a bad way | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme into way=Destination |
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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