Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 7

But we will begin at the beginning, and that is to be found in a hen-roost in another part of the town.

Who acts: we · What happens: begin, find · To what, where: beginning, that, hen roost

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 begin	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 begin	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 begin	aux
4	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 beginning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beginning	det
7	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begin	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 found	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux:pass
12	to	to	PART	_	14 found	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 found	aux:pass
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 begin	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 roost	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 roost	det
17	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roost	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 hen	punct
19	roost	roost	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 part	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 part	det
22	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roost	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 town	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 town	det
25	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 part	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	future	we				at the beginning		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	find	present · passive		that		a hen roost in another part of the town			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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