Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 14
Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows, from personal inspection, how the entrance to Frederick's Hospital looks; but as it is possible that others, who are not Copenhagen people, may also read this little work, we will beforehand give a short description of it.
Who acts: inhabitant, entrance, others, we · What happens: know, look, be, not be, read, give · To what, where: personal inspection, Copenhagen people, little work, short description, entrance
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitant, entrance, others, 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 inhabitant | det |
| 2 | inhabitant | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Copenhagen | case |
| 4 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 inhabitant | nmod |
| 5 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 inspection | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 inspection | case |
| 8 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 inspection | amod |
| 9 | inspection | inspection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knows | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looks | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 looks | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 entrance | det |
| 13 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looks | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Hospital | case |
| 15 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Hospital | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Frederick | case |
| 17 | Hospital | Hospital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 entrance | nmod |
| 18 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 inspection | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 give | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 give | cc |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 possible | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 possible | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 possible | cop |
| 24 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 give | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 read | mark |
| 26 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 read | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 people | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 people | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 people | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 people | advmod |
| 31 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 people | compound |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 others | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 others | punct |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 read | aux |
| 35 | also | also | ADV | _ | 36 read | advmod |
| 36 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 possible | advcl |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 work | det |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 work | amod |
| 39 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 read | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 possible | punct |
| 41 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 give | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 give | aux |
| 43 | beforehand | beforehand | ADV | _ | 44 give | advmod |
| 44 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knows | conj |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 description | det |
| 46 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 description | amod |
| 47 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 give | obj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 it | case |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 description | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | every inhabitant of Copenhagen | personal inspection | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer inspection=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | present | the entrance to Frederick's Hospital | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | present | entrance | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is a | present | others | Copenhagen people | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | read | may | others | this little work | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic | ||||
| 6 | give | future | we | a short description of entrance | beforehand property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme | |||
| 7 | describe | entrance | nom description «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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