Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 64
Shall we read the story all over again?
Who acts: we · What happens: read · To what, where: story
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 again | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 again | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 read | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | shall | we | the story | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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