Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 22
There lies my bow; it shoots well, I can assure you!
Who acts: bow, I · What happens: lie, shoot, assure · To what, where: bow, you
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bow, I), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lies | expl |
| 2 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bow | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 shoots | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shoots | nsubj |
| 7 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lies | conj |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 shoots | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 assure | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 assure | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 assure | aux |
| 12 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lies | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 assure | iobj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | my bow | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shoot | present | bow | well property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | assure | can | I | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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