Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 37
But you will easily perceive that when a man once knows the rights of the journey to Amack, as I know them, it's quite natural that on the New Year's night one should look out to see the wild chase go by.
Who acts: you, man, I, it, wild chase · What happens: perceive, know, be, look out, see, go by · To what, where: rights · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, I, it), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 perceive | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 perceive | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 perceive | aux |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 perceive | advmod |
| 5 | perceive | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 knows | mark |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 knows | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knows | nsubj |
| 10 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 9 man | nmod |
| 11 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 perceive | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rights | det |
| 13 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 knows | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 journey | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 journey | det |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rights | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Amack | case |
| 18 | Amack | Amack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 journey | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 know | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 perceive | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 know | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 natural | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 natural | nsubj |
| 26 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 natural | cop |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 natural | advmod |
| 28 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 perceive | parataxis |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 look | mark |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 one | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Year | det |
| 32 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Year | compound |
| 33 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 one | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 Year | case |
| 35 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 one | compound |
| 36 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 look | obl |
| 37 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 look | aux |
| 38 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 natural | csubj |
| 39 | out | out | ADV | _ | 38 look | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 see | mark |
| 41 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 look | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 chase | det |
| 43 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 chase | amod |
| 44 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 go | nsubj |
| 45 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 see | ccomp |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 go | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 perceive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | future | you | easily property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | know | present | a man | the rights of the journey to Amack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | present | I | rights = right | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | it | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look out | should | on the New Year's night one; out property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | go by | infinitive | the wild chase | 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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