Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 137
No, they can cry; but to man alone is the power of laughter given.
Who acts: dog, man · What happens: cry, be, give · To what, where: power
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 cry | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cry | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cry | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cry | aux |
| 5 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 power | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 power | cc |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 power | nsubj |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 man | advmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 power | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 power | det |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cry | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 laughter | case |
| 15 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 power | nmod |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 power | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | can | dog | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | man | the power | of laughter | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | participle | the power not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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