Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 52
The calendar is only an invention of man, and is not arranged according to nature.
Who acts: calendar · What happens: be, not arrange, accord · To what, where: invention
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (calendar), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 calendar | det |
| 2 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invention | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 invention | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 invention | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 invention | det |
| 6 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invention | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arranged | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 arranged | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 arranged | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 arranged | advmod |
| 13 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 invention | parataxis |
| 14 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 nature | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 according | fixed |
| 16 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arranged | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 invention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the calendar | a invention | of man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not arrange | present · passive | accord nature | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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