Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 100
It was no use, he might make himself great and tall, or remain a little wax doll with a large black hat; still he must dance.
Who acts: rod, lawyer · What happens: be, make, remain, dance · To what, where: use, lawyer, little wax doll
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rod, lawyer), 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 | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 use | det |
| 4 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | parataxis |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tall | cc |
| 12 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 great | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remain | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 remain | cc |
| 15 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 doll | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 doll | amod |
| 18 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 doll | compound |
| 19 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remain | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 hat | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hat | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hat | amod |
| 23 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hat | amod |
| 24 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 doll | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 dance | punct |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 dance | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 dance | nsubj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 dance | aux |
| 29 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 make | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | rod | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | might | lawyer | lawyer | great property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product | |||
| 3 | remain | present | lawyer not said here | a little wax doll with a large black hat | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dance | must | lawyer | still | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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