Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 122
Let any one tear thy web, and thou wilt begin again and repair it.
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: let, begin, repair · To what, where: one tear, web
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 tear | det |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 tear | nummod |
| 4 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 web | nmod:poss |
| 6 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tear | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 begin | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 begin | cc |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 begin | nsubj |
| 10 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 begin | aux |
| 11 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | advcl |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 begin | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 repair | cc |
| 14 | repair | repair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 begin | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 repair | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | any one tear thy web | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | future | thou | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | repair | infinitive | thou not said here | web | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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