Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 100

The overpowering great variegated whole must be divided into small portions, and pressed together like a plaything, if it is to be understood and described.

Who acts: great · What happens: overpower, variegate, divide, press, understand, describe · To what, where: small portions, plaything

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great), 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 overpowering	det
2	overpowering	overpower	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 divided	nsubj:pass
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 variegated	nsubj
4	variegated	variegate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 overpowering	ccomp
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 variegated	xcomp
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 divided	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 divided	aux:pass
8	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 portions	case
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 portions	amod
11	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 divided	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pressed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pressed	cc
14	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 divided	conj
15	together	together	ADV	_	14 pressed	advmod
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 plaything	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 plaything	det
18	plaything	plaything	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pressed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 understood	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 understood	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 understood	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 understood	aux:pass
23	to	to	PART	_	25 understood	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 understood	aux:pass
25	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 pressed	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 described	cc
27	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 understood	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 divided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overpower	gerund					tree rules
2	variegate	past	great			whole property	tree rules
3	divide	must · passive			small portions		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	press	participle				like a plaything; together property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	understand a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		plaything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
6	describe	participle					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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