Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 13
Can one not persuade them to live in peace and quietness, so that each one may mind his own business?"
Who acts: one, thousands · What happens: not persuade, live, mind · To what, where: thousands, peace, own business
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, thousands), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 persuade | aux |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 persuade | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 persuade | advmod |
| 4 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 persuade | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 live | mark |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 persuade | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 peace | case |
| 9 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 quietness | cc |
| 11 | quietness | quietness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 peace | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mind | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 mind | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mind | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 mind | aux |
| 18 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 live | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 business | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 business | amod |
| 21 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mind | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 persuade | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 persuade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not persuade | can | one | thousands = thousand | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | thousands = thousand not said here | peace and quietness | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | ||||
| 3 | mind | may | each one | Krabble's own business | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=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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