Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 39
How might the good folks be getting on, up stairs and down stairs?
Who acts: good folks · What happens: get on · To what, where: stairs
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 (good folks), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 getting | advmod |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 getting | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 folks | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 folks | amod |
| 5 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 getting | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 getting | aux |
| 7 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 getting | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stairs | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 stairs | case |
| 11 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 getting | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stairs | cc |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 stairs | case |
| 14 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stairs | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get on | might · progressive | the good folks | stairs and stairs | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme up stair=Destination |
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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