Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 24
Shall it be a tragedy, or a domestic drama?"
Who acts: you · What happens: shall, be · To what, where: kind, tragedy
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 (you), 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 | Shall | shall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Shall | obj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tragedy | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tragedy | det |
| 5 | tragedy | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shall | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drama | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 drama | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 drama | det |
| 9 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drama | amod |
| 10 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tragedy | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shall | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shall | imperative | you not said here | kind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | a tragedy or a domestic drama | 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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