Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 44
There's something to be got down there; something to swallow, and that's most important.
Who acts: something, that · What happens: be, get down, swallow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, that), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 's | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 got | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 got | aux:pass |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 something | acl |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 there | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 got | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 something | punct |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 's | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 swallow | mark |
| 12 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 something | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 important | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 important | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 important | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 important | cop |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 important | advmod |
| 18 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 something | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get down | to-infinitive · passive | something not said here | there | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING» | ||||
| 3 | swallow | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | that | important property | tree rules |
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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