Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 85
The goloshes, like all persons who wish to do a thing thoroughly, could only attend to one thing at a time.
Who acts: persons, goloshes · What happens: wish, do, attend · To what, where: thing
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 (persons, goloshes), 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 | 17 attend | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 persons | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 persons | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 persons | det |
| 6 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 goloshes | conj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 persons | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 13 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 10 do | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 goloshes | punct |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 attend | aux |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 attend | advmod |
| 17 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 thing | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 thing | nummod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attend | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attend | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 attend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | all persons | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | all persons not said here | a thing | thoroughly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | attend | could | the goloshes and all persons | time | to one thing | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to thing=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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