Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 60
It was not, however, easy for Rudy to convince Saperli of the impossibility of doing what he wished.
Who acts: Rudy, impossibility · What happens: not be, convince, do, wish · To what, where: Saperli, impossibility
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 (Rudy, impossibility), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 easy | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 easy | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 easy | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 easy | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 convince | mark |
| 9 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 convince | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 convince | mark |
| 11 | convince | convince | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 easy | csubj |
| 12 | Saperli | Saperli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 convince | iobj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 impossibility | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 impossibility | det |
| 15 | impossibility | impossibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 convince | obl |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 doing | mark |
| 17 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 impossibility | acl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 doing | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wished | nsubj |
| 20 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | easy, however property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | convince | to-infinitive | Rudy | Saperli | of the impossibility | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus saperli=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | do | gerund | the impossibility not said here | the impossibility | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | Rudy | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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