Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 31
She was obliged to be satisfied with being able to look over the beautiful country and see the busy industry of men.
What happens: oblige, be, look, see · To what, where: Dryad, busy industry
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: 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 satisfied | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 satisfied | cop |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 obliged | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 able | case |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 satisfied | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 country | amod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 look | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 industry | det |
| 19 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 industry | amod |
| 20 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 industry | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | Dryad | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | satisfied property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | over the beautiful country | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over country=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | the busy industry of men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer industry=Stimulus |
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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