Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 24
What then must happen to us, who only grow out of the earth, and are so inferior to them, if we venture to do so?"
Who acts: we · What happens: happen, grow out, be, venture, do · To what, where: us, earth, beings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 happen | advmod |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 happen | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grow | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 grow | nsubj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 grow | advmod |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | parataxis |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grow | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 inferior | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 inferior | cc |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 inferior | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 inferior | advmod |
| 19 | inferior | inferior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grow | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 inferior | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 venture | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 venture | mark |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 venture | nsubj |
| 25 | venture | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 grow | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 venture | xcomp |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 do | advmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | must | us | then | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow out | present | the earth | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location earth=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | beings = being | inferior property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | venture a condition, not said to happen | present | we | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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