Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 194
"You may get a fool to believe that," cried Mother Soren; and she got up and went into the room where the child lay.
Who acts: You, fool, Mother Soren, Holberg, child · What happens: get, believe, cry, get up, go, lay · To what, where: fool, that, room · 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 (You, fool, Mother Soren, Holberg), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fool | det |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 believe | mark |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 believe | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | conj |
| 13 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Soren | compound |
| 14 | Soren | Soren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 room | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 room | det |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 lay | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 child | det |
| 27 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lay | nsubj |
| 28 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 room | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | may | You | a fool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | to-infinitive | a fool not said here | that | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Mother Soren | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get up | past | Holberg | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | go | past | Holberg not said here | the room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | lay | infinitive | the child | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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