Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 14
It is a pity that he can only stay such a short time when he comes.
Who acts: promise, MOON · What happens: be, stay, come · To what, where: pity
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (promise, MOON), 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 pity | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pity | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pity | det |
| 4 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stay | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stay | aux |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 stay | advmod |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pity | acl |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 time | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 comes | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stay | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | promise | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | can | MOON | a pity not said here | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme pity=Location | |||
| 3 | come | present | MOON | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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