Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 40
Is this evening the last time we shall meet?
Who acts: we · What happens: be, meet · To what, where: evening
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 evening | cop |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meet | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 meet | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 meet | aux |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 evening | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this evening | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | shall | we | this evening not said here | time | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evening=Co-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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