Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 62
Certainly, when such high-born personages try for the office, we may as well say 'Good-night,' and go home."
Who acts: such born personages, we · What happens: bear, try, say, go · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (such born personages, 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 18 say | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Certainly | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 try | mark |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 personages | amod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 born | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 personages | amod |
| 8 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 try | nsubj |
| 9 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 office | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 office | det |
| 12 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 try | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 try | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 say | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | aux |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 18 say | cc |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 night | punct |
| 20 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 night | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Good | punct |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 say | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 night | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 night | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 go | cc |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 say | conj |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | try | present | such born personages | for the office | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | may | we | night | certainly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | go | infinitive | we not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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