Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 103
It looks well to wear a uniform when you go into company."
Who acts: dress, you · What happens: look, wear, go · To what, where: uniform, company
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dress, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 looks | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wear | mark |
| 5 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looks | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 uniform | det |
| 7 | uniform | uniform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wear | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 go | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wear | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 company | case |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | dress | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear | to-infinitive | dress not said here | a uniform | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | present | you | company | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into company=Initial_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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