Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 18
Don't you see that they are feathers, such as I wear and you will wear too?
Who acts: you, questions, I · What happens: not do, see, be, wear · To what, where: feathers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, questions, 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Do | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 feathers | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 feathers | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feathers | cop |
| 8 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wear | punct |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 wear | mark |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wear | nsubj |
| 13 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feathers | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wear | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 wear | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 wear | aux |
| 17 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wear | conj |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 wear | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | questions = question | feathers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wear | present | I | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wear | future | you | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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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