Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 33
Do you not think that there are some of our species at a great distance in the interior of the burdock forest?”
Who acts: you, some · What happens: not think, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, some), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 are | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 are | expl |
| 7 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 are | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 species | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 species | nmod:poss |
| 11 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 some | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 distance | amod |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 are | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 interior | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 interior | det |
| 18 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 distance | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 21 | burdock | burdock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forest | compound |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 interior | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | present | some | there | at a great distance in the interior of the burdock forest | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location |
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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