Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 108
We'll call them all out, and the pieces of furniture too, for they are of mahogany."
Who acts: We, Anna · What happens: call out, be · To what, where: Anna
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Anna), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | aux |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 call | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pieces | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pieces | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pieces | det |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 call | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 furniture | case |
| 12 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pieces | nmod |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 call | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mahogany | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 mahogany | case |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mahogany | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mahogany | cop |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mahogany | case |
| 19 | mahogany | mahogany | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | future | We | Anna | the pieces of furniture obl; out property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | Anna | for mahogany | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/127/108/