Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 147
I only spring upward when the machine wills it."
Who acts: I, machine · What happens: spring, will · To what, where: tongue
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, machine), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 spring | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 spring | advmod |
| 3 | spring | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 3 spring | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 wills | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 machine | det |
| 7 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wills | nsubj |
| 8 | wills | will | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spring | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wills | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spring | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | present | I | upward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | will | present | the machine | tongue | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=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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