Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 157
But it may happen that she may fly into a fury if you are too polite to her.
Who acts: it, captain, you · What happens: happen, fly, be · To what, where: fury, captain
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 (it, captain, 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 | _ | 4 happen | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 fly | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fly | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fly | aux |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happen | advcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 fury | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fury | det |
| 11 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fly | obl |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 polite | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 polite | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 polite | cop |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 polite | advmod |
| 16 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fly | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 polite | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | may | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | may | captain | into a fury result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fury=Result | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | captain | polite 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.
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