Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 6
But from this time forward you may come twice a-week to my drawing-class, and then you will soon learn how to do them better.
Who acts: you · What happens: come, learn, do · To what, where: drawing class, sketches
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 (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 come | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 week | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 a | punct |
| 12 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 class | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 class | nmod:poss |
| 15 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 class | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 drawing | punct |
| 17 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 learn | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 learn | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 learn | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 learn | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 learn | aux |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 learn | advmod |
| 24 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | conj |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 do | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 learn | xcomp |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 do | obj |
| 29 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 do | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | may | you | my drawing class | time; week | twice property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to class=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | learn | future | you | then | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | sketches = sketch | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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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