Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 21
Besides, they are afraid of my beak; and I have always a witty answer at hand.
Who acts: flights, I · What happens: be, have · To what, where: witty answer, hand
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flights, I), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 afraid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | cop |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 beak | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beak | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 afraid | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | conj |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 answer | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 answer | det |
| 15 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 answer | amod |
| 16 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answer | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | flights = flight | of my beak; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | a witty answer | hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=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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