Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 159
No, let us go to the sand-pit in front of the gate, and then take a walk in the cabbage garden."
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, go, take · To what, where: us, sand pit, walk, cabbage garden
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 (you, us), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 let | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pit | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pit | det |
| 8 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pit | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sand | punct |
| 10 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pit | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gate | det |
| 15 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 front | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 take | advmod |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 walk | det |
| 21 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 garden | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 garden | det |
| 24 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 garden | compound |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | us not said here | the sand pit in front of the gate | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pit=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | you not said here | a walk | the cabbage garden | then | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent walk=Value in garden=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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