Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 17
Every wish is fulfilled at the moment it is expressed, so that for once mankind have the chance of being happy."
Who acts: moment · What happens: fulfil, express, have, be · To what, where: wish, chance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 wish | det |
| 2 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 4 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fulfilled | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 expressed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 expressed | aux:pass |
| 10 | expressed | express | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 moment | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 have | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 mankind | case |
| 15 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 16 mankind | case |
| 16 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obl |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fulfilled | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chance | det |
| 19 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 happy | case |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 happy | cop |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chance | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fulfilled | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | present · passive | every wish | moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | express | present · passive | the moment not said here | wish | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the chance | for mankind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | happy property | tree rules |
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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