Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 44
You see, that's their life; they exist only for the eye and the nose.
Who acts: You, that, roses · What happens: see, be, exist · To what, where: life, eye
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, that, roses), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 life | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 life | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 life | cop |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 exist | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 exist | nsubj |
| 10 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | conj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 eye | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 eye | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eye | det |
| 14 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exist | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 nose | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nose | det |
| 17 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eye | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | roses's life | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exist | present | roses = rose | the eye and the nose | 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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