Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 23
“I must tell you,” said she, “that to-day is my birthday; and in honor of it, a pair of walking-shoes or galoshes has been entrusted to me, which I am to carry to mankind.
Who acts: One, that · What happens: tell, say, be, entrust, carry, honor · To what, where: you, birthday, pair, One, honor, mankind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, that), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 birthday | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 birthday | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 birthday | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 that | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 birthday | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 18 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 entrusted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 entrusted | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 honor | case |
| 22 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 entrusted | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 honor | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pair | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 pair | det |
| 27 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 entrusted | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 shoes | case |
| 29 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shoes | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 walking | punct |
| 31 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pair | nmod |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 galoshes | cc |
| 33 | galoshes | galosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 shoes | conj |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 entrusted | aux |
| 35 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 entrusted | aux:pass |
| 36 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 me | case |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 entrusted | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 carry | punct |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 carry | obj |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 carry | nsubj |
| 42 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 carry | aux |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 carry | mark |
| 44 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 entrusted | advcl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 mankind | case |
| 46 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 carry | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | must | One | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | One | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | my birthday | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | entrust in a quote | present · perfect · passive | One not said here | a pair of walking shoes or galoshes | One | honor of honor | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to i=Recipient | ||
| 5 | carry in a quote | present | One | mankind | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to mankind=Destination | ||||
| 6 | honor in a quote | honor | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=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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