Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 22
But this other book--I suppose the author expects me to purchase it?
Who acts: I, other book, me · What happens: suppose, expect, purchase · To what, where: author, me, poetry
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, other book, me), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 expects | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 book | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 book | amod |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 expects | nsubj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 suppose | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 suppose | nsubj |
| 7 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 book | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 author | det |
| 9 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 suppose | obj |
| 10 | expects | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 expects | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 purchase | mark |
| 13 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 expects | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 purchase | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 expects | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present | I | the author | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent author=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | expect | present | this other book | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | purchase not said to happen | to-infinitive | me not said here | poetry | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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