Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 41
The fowls from the neighborhood will soon be here to pay you a visit.
Who acts: fowls · What happens: be, pay · To what, where: you
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 (fowls), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fowls | det |
| 2 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 here | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 neighborhood | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 neighborhood | det |
| 5 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fowls | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 here | aux |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 here | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 here | cop |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pay | mark |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 here | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 pay | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 visit | det |
| 14 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pay | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the fowls from the neighborhood | here, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | the fowls from the neighborhood not said here | you | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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