Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 22
“You need feel no care for the coming morrow: when you are old, you receive a pension.”
Who acts: You · What happens: need, feel, come, be, receive · To what, where: care, pension
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 feel | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | parataxis |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 care | det |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 morrow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morrow | det |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 morrow | amod |
| 10 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 old | punct |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 old | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 old | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 old | cop |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 receive | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 receive | nsubj |
| 18 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 old | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pension | det |
| 20 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 receive | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need in a quote | present | You | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | present | no care | for the coming morrow | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent care=Location for morrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | receive in a quote | present | you | a pension | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pension=Theme |
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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