Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 50
You do not know us yet,--very few know us, or give themselves the trouble to make our acquaintance, not even any of the fowls, though we are born to occupy a higher grade in society than most of them.
Who acts: You, few, our · What happens: not know, know, give, make, bear, occupy · To what, where: us, feathers, acquaintance, we, higher grade, society
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 (You, few, our), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | obj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 know | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 few | advmod |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | parataxis |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | parataxis |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 give | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trouble | det |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 trouble | acl |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 22 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 any | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 any | advmod |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 any | advmod |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 acquaintance | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 fowls | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fowls | det |
| 29 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 any | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 born | punct |
| 31 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 born | mark |
| 32 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 born | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 born | aux:pass |
| 34 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 give | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 occupy | mark |
| 36 | occupy | occupy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 born | xcomp |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 grade | det |
| 38 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 grade | amod |
| 39 | grade | grade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 occupy | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 society | case |
| 41 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 occupy | obl |
| 42 | than | than | ADP | _ | 43 most | case |
| 43 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 occupy | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 them | case |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 most | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | You | us | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know | present | few | us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | feathers = feather | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient trouble=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | our acquaintance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product | |||||
| 5 | bear | present · passive | we | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | occupy | to-infinitive | a higher grade | society | than most of feathers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus grade=Experiencer | |||
| 7 | acquaint | our | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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