Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 17
I am the man on whom many persons fix their hopes.
Who acts: I, many persons, persons · What happens: be, fix, hope · To what, where: man, hopes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, many persons, persons), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 man | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 man | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 whom | case |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 fix | obl |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 persons | amod |
| 8 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fix | nsubj |
| 9 | fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fix | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fix | present | many persons | persons's hopes | on the man | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hope=Patient | |||
| 3 | hope | persons = person | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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