Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 238
You must not be ill to-day, for this evening our wedding will take place."
Who acts: You, wedding, our · What happens: not be, take, wed · To what, where: place
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, wedding, our), 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 | 5 ill | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ill | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ill | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ill | cop |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ill | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 evening | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 evening | det |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ill | conj |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ill | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | must | You | day | ill property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | future | our wedding | place | evening | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 3 | wed | our | nom wedding «event transitive»: 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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