Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 8

He always wanted the best of everything, and when he could not manage it otherwise, he did it by magic.

Who acts: man · What happens: want, not manage, do · To what, where: name

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 (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 wanted	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 everything	case
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 best	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 manage	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 manage	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 manage	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 manage	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 manage	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 manage	advmod
14	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 manage	obj
16	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	14 manage	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 did	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 did	nsubj
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 did	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 magic	case
22	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 did	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	man		always, good property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	not manage	could	man	name	otherwise property	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	do	past	man	name	by magic	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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