Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 30
That is the story, and whoever does not understand it may go and purchase a share in the tan-yard from the window.
Who acts: That, whoever, story · What happens: be, not understand, go, purchase · To what, where: story, share, window · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, whoever, story), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 story | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 understand | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 understand | cc |
| 7 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 understand | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 understand | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 understand | advmod |
| 10 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 story | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 understand | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 purchase | cc |
| 15 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 share | det |
| 17 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 purchase | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 yard | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 yard | det |
| 20 | tan | tan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 yard | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 tan | punct |
| 22 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 purchase | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 window | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 window | det |
| 25 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 purchase | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not understand | present · do-support | whoever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go | may | story | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | purchase | infinitive | story not said here | a share | the window | in the tan yard | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent share=Theme from window=Source |
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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