Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 75
Silent approbation will show that you are the educated public in the stalls.
Who acts: Silent approbation, you · What happens: show, educate, be · To what, where: educated public, stalls · 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 (Silent approbation, 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 | Silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 approbation | amod |
| 2 | approbation | approbation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 public | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 public | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 public | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 public | det |
| 9 | educated | educate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 public | amod |
| 10 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 stalls | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stalls | det |
| 13 | stalls | stall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 public | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | future | Silent approbation | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | educate speech: other | participle | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | the educated public | the stalls | 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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