Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 17
You can roam about where you will, while such as we are tied by the foot."
Who acts: You, foot · What happens: roam, tie · To what, where: we
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 (You, foot), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 roam | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 roam | aux |
| 3 | roam | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 7 will | mark |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 will | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 will | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 roam | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tied | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 tied | mark |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 tied | mark |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tied | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tied | aux:pass |
| 14 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 roam | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 foot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 foot | det |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roam | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 roam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | can | You | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tie | present · passive | the foot | we | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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