Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 40
I daresay it will be taken away; then we shall, perhaps, have some corn growing here.
Who acts: I, corn · What happens: daresay, take away, have, grow · To what, where: it, corn
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 (I, corn), 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 | 2 daresay | nsubj |
| 2 | daresay | daresay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 daresay | ccomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 taken | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 shall | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 shall | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 shall | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 daresay | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 15 have | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 daresay | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 corn | det |
| 17 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 corn | acl |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 growing | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 daresay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daresay | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take away | future · passive | it | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I not said here | some corn | perhaps property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient | |||
| 4 | grow | gerund | some corn not said here | here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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