Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 23
Well, they are just as much afraid of those sacks, as you used to be of the rat behind the looking-glass.
Who acts: sacks, you · What happens: be, use, look · To what, where: looking glass
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sacks, you), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 afraid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 afraid | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 afraid | amod |
| 8 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sacks | case |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 sacks | det |
| 11 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 afraid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 used | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 used | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 used | nsubj |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rat | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 rat | cop |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rat | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rat | det |
| 20 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 used | advcl |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 glass | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 glass | det |
| 23 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 glass | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 looking | punct |
| 25 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rat | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sacks = sack | of that sacks; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | past | you | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | the looking glass | of the rat | tree rules | |||
| 4 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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