Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 117
If one of our toys is broken, why we have plenty more."
Who acts: we · What happens: break, have · To what, where: one, plenty
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 broken | mark |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 toys | case |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 toys | nmod:poss |
| 5 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 broken | aux:pass |
| 7 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 have | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 broken | punct |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 have | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 have | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | one of our toys | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | present | we | plenty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
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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