Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 169
Now do be sensible and accept my proposal; we shall travel as intimate friends."
Who acts: we, my · What happens: be, accept, travel, propose · To what, where: proposal
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 (we, my), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sensible | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sensible | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sensible | cop |
| 4 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 accept | cc |
| 6 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sensible | conj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 8 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accept | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 travel | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 travel | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 travel | aux |
| 12 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sensible | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 friends | case |
| 14 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 friends | amod |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 travel | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 travel | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · do-support | now | sensible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accept | infinitive | my proposal | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel | shall | we | as intimate friends | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | propose | my | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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