Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 38
To be a stranger in a strange land is a bitter lot; no one notices you unless you happen to stand in their way.
Who acts: stranger, one, you · What happens: be, notice, happen, stand · To what, where: stranger, strange land, bitter lot, you, way
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 (stranger, one, 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 4 stranger | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stranger | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stranger | det |
| 4 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lot | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 land | amod |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stranger | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lot | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lot | det |
| 11 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lot | amod |
| 12 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 notices | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 notices | nsubj |
| 16 | notices | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lot | acl:relcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 notices | obj |
| 18 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 20 happen | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 happen | nsubj |
| 20 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 notices | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 stand | mark |
| 22 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 happen | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 way | nmod:poss |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stand | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | to-infinitive | a stranger | a strange land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a stranger | a bitter lot | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | notice | present | no one | you | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | happen a condition, not said to happen | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stand | to-infinitive | you not said here | booths's way | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |
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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