Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 12
The goloshes answered that purpose very well, but his body had to follow, and this was impossible. "
Who acts: goloshes, body, this · What happens: answer, have, follow, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goloshes, body, this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goloshes | det |
| 2 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 purpose | mark |
| 5 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 follow | mark |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 impossible | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 impossible | cc |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 impossible | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 impossible | cop |
| 19 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 impossible | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the goloshes | well property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | rain's body | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | rain's body not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | this | impossible 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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