Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 21
The whole world makes itself agreeable to you, and then you are your own master.
Who acts: whole world, you · What happens: make, be · To what, where: world, own master
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 (whole world, you), 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 | 3 world | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 world | amod |
| 3 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 agreeable | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 master | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 master | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 master | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 master | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 master | cop |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 master | amod |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the whole world | world | agreeable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset itself=Product | |||
| 2 | is a | present | you | your own master | then | 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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