Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 68
The forest, on his arrival, had to change its colors when he wished it; and how beautiful are the colors he chooses!
Who acts: forest · What happens: have, change, wish, be, choose, arrive · To what, where: colors, arrival, beautiful colors
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 (forest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 forest | det |
| 2 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrival | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 arrival | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forest | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 forest | punct |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 change | mark |
| 10 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 colors | nmod:poss |
| 12 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 change | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 wished | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wished | nsubj |
| 15 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 change | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wished | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 colors | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 colors | cc |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 colors | amod |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 colors | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 colors | det |
| 23 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 chooses | nsubj |
| 25 | chooses | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 colors | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the forest and forest's arrival | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change | to-infinitive | the forest and forest's arrival not said here | arrival's colors | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | forest | arrival | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the beautiful colors | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | choose | present | forest | the beautiful colors not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=Theme | ||||
| 6 | arrive | forest | nom arrival «act 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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