Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 46
I am the first in this house, when anything solid or useful is required.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, require · To what, where: house, anything
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 first | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 first | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 first | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 first | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 required | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 required | mark |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 required | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 anything | amod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 useful | cc |
| 13 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 solid | conj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 required | aux:pass |
| 15 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 first | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | this house | first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | require | present · passive | anything | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |
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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