Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 58
He was not allowed to remain, and little Ida got over it, because she was obliged to do so.
Who acts: sparrow, little Ida · What happens: not allow, remain, get, oblige, do · To what, where: sparrow, course, last
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 (sparrow, little Ida), 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 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 remain | mark |
| 6 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Ida | amod |
| 10 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | conj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 obliged | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 obliged | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 obliged | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 obliged | aux:pass |
| 18 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 got | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 obliged | xcomp |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | past · passive | sparrow | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | sparrow not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past | little Ida | course | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination | ||||
| 4 | oblige | past · passive | last | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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