Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 65
It is not easy to find a master who has room for him at night, and we shall have to provide him with clothes too.
Who acts: master, we · What happens: not be, find, have, provide · To what, where: master, room, George
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 easy | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 easy | advmod |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | csubj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 master | det |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 master | acl:relcl |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 room | nmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 provide | mark |
| 22 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 have | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 provide | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 clothes | case |
| 25 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 provide | obl |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 provide | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | a master | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | present | a master | room | night | for George | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient | ||
| 4 | have | shall | we | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | provide | to-infinitive | we not said here | George | with clothes | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with clothes=Theme |
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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