Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 8
Sleep is sure to play a great part in the New Year, and the glass likewise.
Who acts: Sleep · What happens: be, play · To what, where: great part
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 (Sleep), 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 | Sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 play | mark |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 part | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 part | amod |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 play | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Year | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Year | det |
| 11 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Year | compound |
| 12 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 play | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glass | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 glass | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 glass | det |
| 16 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | conj |
| 17 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 16 glass | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sleep | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | Sleep not said here | a great part | in the New Year | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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