Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 31

But it must be at the age when grandfather's stick becomes a neighing horse, with head, legs, and tail.

Who acts: roof, stick · What happens: be, become, neigh · To what, where: age, neighing horse

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof, stick), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 age	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 age	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 age	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 age	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 age	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 age	det
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 becomes	mark
9	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stick	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 grandfather	case
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 becomes	nsubj
12	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 age	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 horse	det
14	neighing	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 horse	amod
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 becomes	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 head	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 head	case
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 horse	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 legs	punct
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 horse	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tail	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tail	cc
23	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 becomes	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 age	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is	must	roof		at the age	tree rules
2	become	present	grandfather's stick	a neighing horse and legs		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	neigh	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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