Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 33
This certainly was not pleasant; but at last it was made into twelve garments of that kind which people do not like to name, and yet everybody should wear one. "
Who acts: This, people, everybody · What happens: not be, make, not like, name, wear · To what, where: last, twelve garments, kind, one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, people, everybody), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pleasant | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 pleasant | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleasant | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pleasant | advmod |
| 5 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 last | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pleasant | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 garments | case |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 garments | nummod |
| 15 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 kind | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 kind | det |
| 18 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 garments | nmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 like | obj |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 like | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 like | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 like | advmod |
| 23 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 kind | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 name | mark |
| 25 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 like | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wear | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 wear | cc |
| 28 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 31 wear | advmod |
| 29 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 wear | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 wear | aux |
| 31 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleasant | parataxis |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 wear | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasant | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | This | certainly, pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | last | twelve garments of that kind | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into garment=Product | ||||
| 3 | not like | present · do-support | people | that kind | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wear | should | everybody | one | yet | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source |
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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