Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 10
"I should like to know which of us will travel furthest," said the smallest of the five; "we shall soon see now."
Who acts: I, us, we · What happens: like, know, travel, say, see · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, us, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 travel | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 travel | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 travel | aux |
| 11 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 know | ccomp |
| 12 | furthest | furth | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 travel | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 smallest | det |
| 17 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 said | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 five | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 five | det |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 smallest | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 see | advmod |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 see | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | travel in a quote | future | us | furth property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | see in a quote | shall | we | now | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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