Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 33
If we don't do anything else, we can walk about with you everywhere, and we think that is the best thing we can do."
Who acts: we, that · What happens: not do, walk, think, be, do · To what, where: anything, best thing · Speech: someone speaks here
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, that), 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 | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 walk | advcl |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 anything | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 walk | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 walk | aux |
| 11 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 walk | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 walk | obl |
| 15 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 walk | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 think | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 think | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 think | nsubj |
| 19 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 walk | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 thing | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 thing | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thing | det |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 thing | amod |
| 24 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 think | ccomp |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 thing | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 walk | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | we | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | walk | can | we | with you; about, everywhere property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | we | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | the best thing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | can | we | the best thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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