Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 16
Here's my brother's old waistcoat--could not that play in our piece, too?"
Who acts: old waistcoat · What happens: be, not play · To what, where: piece
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 (old waistcoat), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 play | advmod |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waistcoat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 brother | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 waistcoat | amod |
| 7 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 play | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 play | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | ADV | _ | 12 play | advmod |
| 12 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 piece | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 piece | nmod:poss |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 play | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 too | punct |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 play | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 play | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my brother's old waistcoat | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not play | could | our piece | that property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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