Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 42
You know what a falling star is, do you not?
Who acts: You, falling star · What happens: know, be, fall, not do · To what, where: you · 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, falling star), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 know | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 star | det |
| 5 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 star | amod |
| 6 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a falling star | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not do | present | You not said here | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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