Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 155
Good fortune seemed to follow him, as it does those who think and act for themselves, and who remember the proverb, "Nuts are given to us, but they are not cracked for us."
Who acts: Good fortune, confidence · What happens: seem, follow, do, think, act, remember · To what, where: fortune, those, proverb, Nuts, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Good fortune, confidence), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fortune | amod |
| 2 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 follow | mark |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 follow | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 does | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 does | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 does | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | conj |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 does | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 think | nsubj |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 act | cc |
| 15 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 themselves | case |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 act | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 remember | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 remember | cc |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 remember | nsubj |
| 21 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 does | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 proverb | det |
| 23 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remember | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 given | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 given | punct |
| 26 | Nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 given | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 given | aux:pass |
| 28 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 remember | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 us | case |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 given | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cracked | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 cracked | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 cracked | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 cracked | aux:pass |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 cracked | advmod |
| 36 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 us | case |
| 38 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 cracked | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Good fortune | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | Good fortune not said here | fortune | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | present | confidence | those | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | act | present | for relations = relation | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | remember | present | the proverb | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent proverb=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | give in a quote | present · passive | Nuts | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to we=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | not crack in a quote | present · passive | Nuts = nut | for us | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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