Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 16
"All the world may come to the great ball, even human beings, if they can only talk in their sleep, or do something after our fashion.
Who acts: world, beings · What happens: come, talk, do, sleep · To what, where: great ball, sleep, something
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, beings), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 world | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ball | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ball | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ball | amod |
| 10 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beings | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 beings | advmod |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beings | amod |
| 14 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ball | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 talk | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 talk | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 talk | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 talk | aux |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 talk | advmod |
| 20 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sleep | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 talk | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 do | cc |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 27 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 do | obj |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 fashion | case |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 fashion | nmod:poss |
| 30 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | may | all world | the great ball and human beings | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | talk a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | beings = being | beings's sleep | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | all world not said here | something | after our fashion | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | sleep in a quote | beings = being | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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