Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 35
"You might know I should think of it," answered the hair brush; "I am engaged to the boot-jack."
Who acts: You, hair brush · What happens: know, think, answer, engage · To what, where: hair brush · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, hair brush), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 think | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brush | det |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brush | compound |
| 15 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 engaged | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 engaged | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 engaged | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 engaged | aux:pass |
| 20 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 answered | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 jack | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 jack | det |
| 23 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jack | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 boot | punct |
| 25 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 engaged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | might | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | should | the hair brush = brush | of estate | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the hair brush | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | engage in a quote | present · passive | the hair brush = brush | to the boot jack | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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