Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 156
If you want to be very civil to her, her name is Mother Soren Sorensen Muller.
Who acts: you, name, captain · What happens: want, be, name · To what, where: captain, Mother
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 (you, name, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 want | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Mother | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 civil | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 civil | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 civil | advmod |
| 7 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 want | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 civil | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Mother | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Mother | cop |
| 14 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Muller | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Soren | Soren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sorensen | compound |
| 16 | Sorensen | Sorensen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Muller | compound |
| 17 | Muller | Muller | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 Muller | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | captain | civil property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | captain's name | Mother | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | captain | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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