Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 46
They had taken it literally, and all things are not to be taken literally.
Who acts: beams · What happens: take, not take · To what, where: body, things
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: who acts (beams), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | obj |
| 5 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 3 taken | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taken | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 things | det |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 taken | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 taken | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 taken | conj |
| 15 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 14 taken | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | beams = beam | body | literally property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | not take | present · passive | all things | literally property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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