Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 35
We recommend him to study the ancients, etc.'
Who acts: We · What happens: recommend, study · To what, where: editor, ancients
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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 recommend | nsubj |
| 2 | recommend | recommend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 recommend | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 study | mark |
| 5 | study | study | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 recommend | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ancients | det |
| 7 | ancients | ancient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 study | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 etc. | punct |
| 9 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 7 ancients | conj |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ancients | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recommend | present | We | editor | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | study | to-infinitive | We not said here | the ancients and etc. | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ancient=Topic |
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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