Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 61
I shall show you the drawings, and I shall show you the architect, for he is to dine here to-day."
Who acts: I, metamorphosis · What happens: show, be · To what, where: drawings, you, architect
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, metamorphosis), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 show | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | aux |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 show | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 drawings | det |
| 6 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 show | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 show | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 show | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 show | aux |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 show | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 show | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 architect | det |
| 14 | architect | architect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 show | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dine | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 dine | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dine | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dine | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 dine | mark |
| 20 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 show | conj |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 dine | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dine | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | shall | I | the drawings | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient drawing=Topic | |||
| 2 | show | shall | I | the architect | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient architect=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | present | metamorphosis | here | day | dine property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/147/61/