Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 155
"I should think you would do well to go to the ferry-woman in Borrehaus," answered the captain. "
Who acts: I, you, captain · What happens: think, do, go, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, captain), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 do | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 do | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 13 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 woman | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ferry | punct |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Borrehaus | case |
| 17 | Borrehaus | Borrehaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 woman | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 answered | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 answered | punct |
| 20 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 captain | det |
| 22 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | should | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | would | you | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | to the ferry woman in Borrehaus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the captain | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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