Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 9
“Now let us see what we can do to amuse ourselves.”
Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: let, see, do, amuse · To what, where: us, ourselves · 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 (you, us, we), 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 | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 amuse | mark |
| 11 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | xcomp |
| 12 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 amuse | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | us | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | amuse in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | ourselves | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer |
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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