Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 18
He will make you a lady of Major-general-field-sergeant-commander Billy-goat's-legs.
Who acts: husband · What happens: make · To what, where: lady, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 commander | case |
| 8 | Major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 commander | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Major | punct |
| 10 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Major | conj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 general | punct |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 commander | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 field | punct |
| 14 | sergeant | sergeant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 commander | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 commander | punct |
| 16 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lady | nmod |
| 17 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 commander | appos |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Billy | punct |
| 19 | goat's | goat's | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 legs | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 goat's | punct |
| 21 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 commander | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | husband | a lady of Major field sergeant commander goat's legs | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary lady=Product |
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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