Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 75
I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.
Who acts: I, you, visit · What happens: have, be, jump down · To what, where: visit, pleasant thing, end, drawers
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, visit), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | aux |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 visit | det |
| 5 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 visit | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sure | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 sure | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sure | cop |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thing | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 thing | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sure | ccomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thing | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 last | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 last | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 last | cop |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 last | case |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sure | conj |
| 27 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 29 jump | mark |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 jump | mark |
| 29 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 last | advcl |
| 30 | down | down | ADV | _ | 29 jump | advmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 drawers | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 drawers | det |
| 33 | drawers | drawer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 jump | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | I | a visit | from mine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | visit | no pleasant thing | in the end | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | I | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | jump down | to-infinitive | I not said here | the drawers | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from drawer=Trajectory |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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