Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 140
If they are deaf and blind, We'll sing, though weather prove unkind."
Who acts: rites, We, weather · What happens: be, sing, prove
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 (rites, We, weather), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 deaf | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 deaf | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deaf | cop |
| 4 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sing | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 blind | cc |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deaf | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 deaf | punct |
| 8 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sing | nsubj |
| 9 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sing | aux |
| 10 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prove | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 prove | mark |
| 13 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prove | nsubj |
| 14 | prove | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sing | parataxis |
| 15 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prove | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sing | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | rites = rite | deaf property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | rites = rite not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | future | We | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | prove | present | weather | unkind property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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