Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 18
I could make up a new "Thousand and One Nights," in my own way, out of these pictures, but the number might be too great, after all.
Who acts: I, number · What happens: make up, be · To what, where: own way
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 (I, number), 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 make | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 make | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Thousand | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Thousand | amod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Thousand | punct |
| 8 | Thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Nights | nummod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Nights | cc |
| 10 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Nights | nummod |
| 11 | Nights | Night | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 make | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Nights | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Nights | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pictures | punct |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 pictures | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pictures | case |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 pictures | det |
| 22 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 great | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 great | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 number | det |
| 26 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 great | nsubj |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 great | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 great | cop |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 great | advmod |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 all | punct |
| 32 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 all | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 great | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | could | I | my own way | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | might | the number | great property | tree rules |
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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