Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 229

He's an artist with the color-pot as well as in the theatre; but when he gets all the power into his own hands, then the pot's empty!

Who acts: town · What happens: be, get · To what, where: artist, power, own hands

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 (town), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 artist	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 artist	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 artist	det
4	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 pot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pot	det
7	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pot	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 color	punct
9	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 artist	nmod
10	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	15 theatre	cc
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 as	fixed
12	as	as	ADP	_	10 as	fixed
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 theatre	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 theatre	det
15	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pot	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 empty	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 empty	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 gets	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gets	nsubj
20	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 empty	advcl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 power	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 power	det
23	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gets	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 hands	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hands	amod
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gets	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 empty	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 empty	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pot	det
31	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 empty	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 pot	case
33	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 artist	conj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 artist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	town	a artist			with the color pot as the theatre	tree rules
2	get	present	town	all power	town's own hands			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus
3	be		town not said here			then		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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