Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 87
Then he wanted to be a little bird, and in this change he lost the characteristics of the former one. "
Who acts: nature · What happens: want, be, lose · To what, where: little bird, characteristics, change
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 (nature), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wanted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bird | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bird | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bird | amod |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lost | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 change | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 change | det |
| 13 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lost | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lost | nsubj |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanted | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 characteristics | det |
| 17 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lost | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 characteristics | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | nature | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | nature not said here | a little bird | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | nature | the characteristics of the former one | this change | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent characteristic=Eventuality |
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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