Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 16
Something better always makes its appearance when old, worn-out things fail."
Who acts: Something, worn things · What happens: make, fail · To what, where: appearance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Something, worn things), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Something | amod |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 makes | advmod |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 old | mark |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fail | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 old | punct |
| 10 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 out | punct |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 worn | compound:prt |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fail | nsubj |
| 14 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 makes | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Something | valley's appearance | always property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material appearance=Product | |||
| 2 | fail | present | worn things | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «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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