Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 30
“He creeps so carefully; he will afford us much pleasure--and we have nothing but him to live for!
Who acts: forest, we · What happens: creep, afford, have, live · To what, where: us, nothing
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 creeps | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 creeps | nsubj |
| 3 | creeps | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 carefully | advmod |
| 5 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 3 creeps | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 afford | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 afford | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 afford | aux |
| 9 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 creeps | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 afford | obj |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pleasure | amod |
| 12 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 afford | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 creeps | conj |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 him | cc |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 nothing | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 nothing | acl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 live | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 creeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep in a quote | present | forest | carefully property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | afford in a quote | future | forest | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | nothing not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «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: «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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