Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 50
Such things ought not to be concealed, and I will do my best to get the story into the papers, so that it becomes known throughout the land; the hens have richly deserved it, and their family too."
Who acts: family, I, story · What happens: not conceal, do, get, become, know, deserve · To what, where: Such things, best, story, papers, hens
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 (family, I, story), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 concealed | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 concealed | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 concealed | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 concealed | aux:pass |
| 7 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 do | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 concealed | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 best | nmod:poss |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 do | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 best | csubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 papers | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 papers | det |
| 21 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 becomes | punct |
| 23 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 becomes | mark |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 so | fixed |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 becomes | nsubj |
| 26 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | conj |
| 27 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 becomes | xcomp |
| 28 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 30 land | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 land | det |
| 30 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 known | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 deserved | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hens | det |
| 33 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 deserved | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 deserved | aux |
| 35 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 36 deserved | advmod |
| 36 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 concealed | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 deserved | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 family | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 family | cc |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 family | nmod:poss |
| 41 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 concealed | obl:agent |
| 42 | too | too | ADV | _ | 41 family | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 concealed | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not conceal | ought · passive | papers's family | Such things | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | future | I | my best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the story | the papers | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | become | present | story | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | participle | story not said here | throughout the land | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | deserve | present · perfect · passive | the hens | richly property | 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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