Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 23
But pray make yourself at home; it is easy to make one's self comfortable.
What happens: make, be · To what, where: yourself, home, self
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 make | cc |
| 2 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 easy | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 easy | expl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 easy | cop |
| 10 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 easy | csubj |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 self | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 one | case |
| 15 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 make | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | yourself | home | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourself=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | one's self | comfortable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset self=Product |
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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