Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 20
Several times it was also, as it must be, well shaken by the wind and the rain; for that is a part of education.
Who acts: tree, wind, that · What happens: be, shake
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 (tree, wind, that), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 also | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 also | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 also | cop |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 shaken | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 also | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 be | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 be | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 be | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 shaken | aux:pass |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 be | punct |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 shaken | advmod |
| 13 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 wind | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaken | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rain | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rain | det |
| 19 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wind | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 part | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 part | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 part | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 part | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 part | det |
| 25 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaken | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 education | case |
| 27 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 part | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 shaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tree | time | also property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shake | infinitive · passive | the wind and the rain | well property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | for a part; of education | tree rules |
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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