Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 136
And am I to stand here and listen to you?"
Who acts: I · What happens: stand, listen · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stand | cc |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stand | mark |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stand | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 listen | cc |
| 8 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stand | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 listen | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | I | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to you=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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