Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 12
He ought, to be sure, to have read over his lesson again, but that, you know, he could not do.
Who acts: thought, you · What happens: be, read, know, not do · To what, where: lesson · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | aux |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sure | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 read | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 read | mark |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 read | aux |
| 10 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 sure | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 lesson | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lesson | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 read | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 read | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 that | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 that | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sure | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 do | advmod |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 know | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | ought | thought | that obl; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read | to-infinitive · perfect | thought not said here | thought's lesson | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not do | could | thought | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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