Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 96
It was easy to melt all these away in the gold-making crucible, and yet obtain no gold.
What happens: be, melt away, make, obtain · To what, where: these, making crucible, gold
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 easy | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 easy | cop |
| 3 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 melt | mark |
| 5 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 easy | xcomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 these | det:predet |
| 7 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 melt | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 melt | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 crucible | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crucible | det |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 making | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 gold | punct |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 crucible | amod |
| 14 | crucible | crucible | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 melt | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 obtain | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 obtain | cc |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 obtain | advmod |
| 18 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 easy | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 gold | det |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obtain | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | melt away | to-infinitive | these | the making crucible | away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient this=Result | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 4 | obtain | present | no gold | yet | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gold=Theme |
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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