Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 3
"But we have no theatre," cried little Anna, "and we have no one to act for us; my old doll cannot, for she is a fright, and my new one cannot, for she must not rumple her new clothes."
Who acts: we, little Anna, she · What happens: have, cry, act, be, not rumple · To what, where: theatre, one, new clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
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, little Anna, she), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 have | cc |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 theatre | det |
| 6 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Anna | amod |
| 11 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 act | mark |
| 20 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 one | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 act | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 can | punct |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 doll | nmod:poss |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 doll | amod |
| 26 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 can | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | advcl |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 can | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fright | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 fright | case |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 fright | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 fright | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fright | det |
| 34 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 can | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 can | cc |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 one | nmod:poss |
| 38 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 one | amod |
| 39 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 can | nsubj |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | advcl |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 can | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 rumple | punct |
| 43 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 47 rumple | mark |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 rumple | nsubj |
| 45 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 rumple | aux |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 rumple | advmod |
| 47 | rumple | rumple | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 49 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 clothes | amod |
| 50 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 47 rumple | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | we | no theatre | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | little Anna | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | no one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 4 | act in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | no one not said here | for us | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | she | for a fright | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not rumple in a quote | must | she | her new clothes | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
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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