Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 253
You must not be unwell this evening, now that we are to have our nuptials celebrated.”
Who acts: You, we, nuptials · What happens: not be, be, celebrate
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we, nuptials), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 unwell | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 unwell | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 unwell | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unwell | cop |
| 5 | unwell | unwell | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 evening | det |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unwell | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 have | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unwell | conj |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 nuptials | nmod:poss |
| 16 | nuptials | nuptial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 celebrated | nsubj |
| 17 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unwell | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 unwell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | must | You | evening | unwell property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | we | now | have property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | celebrate | past | our nuptials | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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