Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 59
And Agent Fabs had the impudence to try and make our aunt believe all this.
Who acts: Agent Fabs, impudence, aunt · What happens: have, try, make, believe · To what, where: impudence, aunt, this
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Agent Fabs, impudence, aunt), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | Agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Fabs | compound |
| 3 | Fabs | fab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 impudence | det |
| 6 | impudence | impudence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 try | mark |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 try | conj |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 12 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | xcomp |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 this | det:predet |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 believe | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Agent Fabs | the impudence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | the impudence not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | the impudence not said here | our aunt | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | believe | infinitive | our aunt not said here | this | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
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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