Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 128
I do not know whether you would care to go to another wedding," he replied, "although it is quite a different affair to the one we saw last night.
Who acts: I, you, Hjalmar, wedding, we · What happens: not know, care, go, reply, be, see · To what, where: wedding, different affair, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, you, Hjalmar, wedding), 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 | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 care | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 care | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 care | aux |
| 8 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 care | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 wedding | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 wedding | det |
| 13 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 affair | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 affair | punct |
| 20 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 26 affair | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 affair | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 affair | cop |
| 23 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 affair | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 affair | det |
| 25 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 affair | amod |
| 26 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 one | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 affair | nmod |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 saw | nsubj |
| 31 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 one | acl:relcl |
| 32 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 night | amod |
| 33 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | care | would | you | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | another wedding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | Hjalmar | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | wedding | quite different affair | the one | tree rules | |||
| 6 | see | past | we | the one not said here | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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