Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 150
There is no road so high that a man may not venture upon it."
Who acts: road, man · What happens: be, not venture
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 road | det |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 high | advmod |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 road | amod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 venture | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 venture | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 venture | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 venture | advmod |
| 12 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 high | advcl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 venture | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no road | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not venture | may | a man | upon road | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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