Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 8
I will show you the place," continued the Moon, "the largest square in it, and you will fancy yourself transported into the city of a fairy tale.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: show, continue, fancy, transport · To what, where: place, you, Moon, yourself, city · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth 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, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 show | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | aux |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 show | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
| 9 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Moon | det |
| 11 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 square | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 square | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 square | det |
| 15 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 square | amod |
| 16 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 square | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fancy | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fancy | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 fancy | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fancy | aux |
| 23 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 show | parataxis |
| 24 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 fancy | obj |
| 25 | transported | transport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 fancy | xcomp |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 city | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 city | det |
| 28 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 transported | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 tale | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 tale | det |
| 31 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tale | compound |
| 32 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 city | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | future | I | the place | you | tree rules | |||
| 2 | continue in a quote | past | the Moon | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent moon=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fancy | future | you | yourself | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | transport | participle | you not said here | the city of a fairy tale | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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