Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 38
“But I am afraid we shall hardly succeed, for she is a queen!”
Who acts: Mother Snail, we, many more · What happens: be, succeed · 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 (Mother Snail, we, many more), 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 | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 afraid | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | cop |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 succeed | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 succeed | aux |
| 8 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 9 succeed | advmod |
| 9 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 queen | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 queen | case |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 queen | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 queen | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 succeed | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Mother Snail = snail | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | succeed in a quote | shall | we | hardly property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | many more = more | for a queen | 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: «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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