Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 72
"We two cannot live under the same roof," said the father one day. "
Who acts: We · What happens: not live, say · To what, where: same roof · 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 (We), 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 | _ | 6 live | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 live | nsubj |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 We | appos |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 live | advmod |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 roof | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roof | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 roof | amod |
| 10 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | compound |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 father | flat |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live in a quote | can | We | the same roof | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under roof=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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