Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 22
They shall represent the unwelcome wooer, whom the lady does not like.
Who acts: boots, lady · What happens: represent, not like · To what, where: unwelcome wooer
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 (boots, lady), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 represent | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 represent | aux |
| 3 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wooer | det |
| 5 | unwelcome | unwelcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wooer | amod |
| 6 | wooer | wooer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 represent | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 like | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 like | nsubj |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 like | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wooer | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 represent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | shall | boots = boot | the unwelcome wooer | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wooer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not like | present · do-support | the lady | the unwelcome wooer | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme |
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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