Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 28
Next year, the letter I will have its turn for the first prize, and the letter R for the second."
Who acts: letter · What happens: have · To what, where: turn
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 year | amod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 year | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 letter | det |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 turn | nmod:poss |
| 10 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 prize | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prize | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 prize | amod |
| 14 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 letter | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 letter | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 letter | det |
| 18 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | parataxis |
| 19 | R | R | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 letter | appos |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 second | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 second | det |
| 22 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 letter | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | the letter | letter's turn | year | for the first prize | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Patient |
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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