Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 85
I have had visits from mine, and you may believe me it is not altogether pleasant.
Who acts: I, you, visit · What happens: have, believe, not be · To what, where: visits, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, visit), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | aux |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 mine | case |
| 6 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 had | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believe | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 believe | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 believe | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 believe | aux |
| 11 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 believe | iobj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pleasant | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 pleasant | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 pleasant | advmod |
| 16 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 17 pleasant | advmod |
| 17 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 believe | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | I | visits | from mine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Patient | |||
| 2 | believe | may | you | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | visit | altogether, pleasant property | 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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