Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 69
Let us draw a thick line through last year: we will even burn the almanack.
Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: let, draw, burn · To what, where: us, thick line, almanack
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 line | det |
| 5 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 line | amod |
| 6 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 draw | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 year | amod |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 draw | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 burn | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 burn | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 burn | aux |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 burn | advmod |
| 14 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 almanack | det |
| 16 | almanack | almanack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burn | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | infinitive | us not said here | a thick line | year | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme | |||
| 3 | burn | future | we | the almanack | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent almanack=Theme |
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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