Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 230
We have told the first; and our last word is, don't wish for a "bachelor's nightcap."
Who acts: We, last word, our · What happens: tell, not be, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, last word, our), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 first | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 told | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 wish | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wish | cc |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 word | nmod:poss |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 word | amod |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wish | cop |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wish | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 wish | advmod |
| 15 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 nightcap | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bachelor | det |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bachelor | punct |
| 19 | bachelor | bachelor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nightcap | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 bachelor | case |
| 21 | nightcap | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wish | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 wish | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | We | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is | present · do-support | our last word | for a bachelor's nightcap; wish property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | word | our | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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