Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 151
You do not understand the world; you will make yourself ill about it; you ought to travel; I am going on a journey in the summer, will you go with me?
Who acts: You, I · What happens: not understand, make, travel, go · To what, where: world, yourself, journey
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 understand | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 understand | advmod |
| 4 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 understand | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 understand | conj |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ill | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 travel | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 travel | nsubj |
| 17 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 travel | aux |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 travel | mark |
| 19 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 understand | parataxis |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 going | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 going | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 travel | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 journey | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 journey | det |
| 26 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 going | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 summer | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 summer | det |
| 29 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 journey | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 go | aux |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 go | nsubj |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 travel | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 me | case |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 go | obl |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | present · do-support | You | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | future | you | yourself | ill property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Product | |||
| 3 | travel | ought | you | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | I | a journey in the summer | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | ||||
| 5 | go | future | you | with me | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary |
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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