Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 45
I can laugh or cry, according to circumstances.
Who acts: I · What happens: laugh, cry, accord
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), 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 | 3 laugh | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 laugh | aux |
| 3 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 cry | cc |
| 5 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 laugh | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 circumstances | punct |
| 7 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 circumstances | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 according | fixed |
| 9 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cry | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | can | I | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | infinitive | I not said here | accord circumstances | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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