Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 109
Does she not show us--she the queen in the land of enchantment--her astounding dramatic talent in all our dreams?
Who acts: many, our · What happens: not show, queen, dream · To what, where: us, land
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, our), 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 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 show | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 show | advmod |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 show | iobj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 queen | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 queen | nsubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 queen | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 enchantment | case |
| 14 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 land | nmod |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 talent | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 talent | nmod:poss |
| 17 | astounding | astounding | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 talent | amod |
| 18 | dramatic | dramatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 talent | amod |
| 19 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 queen | appos |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 dreams | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 dreams | det:predet |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 23 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 talent | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show | present · do-support | many | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | queen | many | the land of enchantment | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dream | our | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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