Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 33
"Well, yes; people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
Who acts: people, wise man · What happens: write, be, not print · To what, where: poems, love, people
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, wise man), 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 | _ | 7 write | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 write | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 write | discourse |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 write | nsubj |
| 7 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 write | obj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 love | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 love | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 love | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 love | case |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 write | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 print | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 print | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 print | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 print | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 print | advmod |
| 21 | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 write | conj | ||
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 print | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 write | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write in a quote | present | people | poems | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | people | love | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not print in a quote | future | a wise man | people | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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