Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 12
Now, suppose we count the glasses--of course I count the different degrees in the glasses for different people.
Who acts: we, I · What happens: suppose, count · To what, where: glasses, different degrees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 suppose | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 count | nsubj |
| 5 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 glasses | det |
| 7 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 count | obj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 count | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 12 count | advmod |
| 10 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 of | fixed |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 count | nsubj |
| 12 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 suppose | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 degrees | det |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 degrees | amod |
| 15 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 count | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 glasses | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 glasses | det |
| 18 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 count | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 20 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 glasses | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | count | present | we | the glasses | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme | ||||
| 3 | count | present | I | the different degrees | the glasses for different people | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent degree=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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