Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 94

It cannot be a trick of hers, and mean that we are now to take care of ourselves.

Who acts: peep, we · What happens: not be, mean, be, take · To what, where: trick, care · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (peep, we), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trick	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 trick	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 trick	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 trick	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trick	det
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 hers	case
8	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 trick	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mean	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mean	cc
11	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trick	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 now	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 now	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 now	cop
15	now	now	ADV	_	11 mean	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 take	mark
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 now	acl
18	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 ourselves	case
20	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 take	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	can	peep	a trick	of mother	tree rules
2	mean	present	peep not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	we		now property	tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive		care	of ourselves	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of ourselves=Initial_Location

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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