Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 42
He does not go forward with the times, and that I do not like."
Who acts: man, I · What happens: not go, not like
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 (man, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 times | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 times | det |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 like | cc |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 like | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 like | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 like | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | present · do-support | man | time | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not like | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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