Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 59
“But do you all stand before me that no one may see us.”
Who acts: you, one · What happens: stand, see · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one), 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 | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 stand | cc |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stand | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 stand | advmod |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 stand | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stand | advcl |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | present · do-support | you | before the Princess = princess | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before i=Location | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | may | no one | us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
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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