Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 28
To become quite a different being, and yet remain the same!
What happens: become, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 become | mark |
| 2 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 different | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 different | det |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 become | xcomp |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 remain | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remain | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 remain | cc |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 remain | advmod |
| 10 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 different | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remain | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 different | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | to-infinitive | different property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | yet | remain property | 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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