Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 73
If we had not God to trust in, we should have nothing."
Who acts: we, God · What happens: have, trust · To what, where: God, nothing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, God), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | advcl |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 God | advmod |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 trust | mark |
| 7 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 trust | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | we | God | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trust | to-infinitive | God not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | should | we | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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