Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 16
I mention no names, but there is a hen here who intends to pluck herself in order to look well.
Who acts: I, hen · What happens: mention, be, intend, pluck, look · To what, where: names, hen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hen), 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 mention | nsubj |
| 2 | mention | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 names | det |
| 4 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mention | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 is | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 mention | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hen | det |
| 10 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 hen | advmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 intends | nsubj |
| 13 | intends | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hen | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 pluck | mark |
| 15 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 intends | xcomp |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 pluck | obj |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 look | mark |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 in | fixed |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 look | mark |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pluck | advcl |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 look | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | present | I | no names | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a hen | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | intend | present | a hen | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pluck not said to happen | to-infinitive | a hen not said here | hen | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | a hen not said here | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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