Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 80
Still I contrive to lay hold on some of it."
Who acts: I · What happens: contrive, lay · To what, where: hold, some
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 3 contrive | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 contrive | nsubj |
| 3 | contrive | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 lay | mark |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 contrive | xcomp |
| 6 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 some | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 lay | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 some | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contrive | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 contrive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contrive | present | I | still | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | to-infinitive | I not said here | hold | some | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on some=Destination |
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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