Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 18

If we had children of our own, husband, our child should be an architect and a professor too."

Who acts: we, child · What happens: have, be · To what, where: children, architect

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, child), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 architect	advcl
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 husband	punct
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 child	nmod:poss
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 architect	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 architect	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 architect	cop
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 architect	det
16	architect	architect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 professor	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 professor	det
19	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 architect	conj
20	too	too	ADV	_	19 professor	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 professor	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 professor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	we	children of our own				husband obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	is a	should	our child	a architect and a professor					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.

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