Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 36
How well you can stretch your legs out!
Who acts: you · What happens: stretch out · To what, where: legs
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 well | advmod |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 stretch | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stretch | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stretch | aux |
| 5 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 legs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stretch | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 stretch | compound:prt |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 stretch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | can | you | your legs | well property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
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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