Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 21
Is that thing up yonder to teach me to run?
Who acts: thing · What happens: be, teach, run · To what, where: thing, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | cop |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thing | det |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 teach | nsubj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 thing | compound:prt |
| 5 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 7 teach | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 teach | mark |
| 7 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 teach | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 run | mark |
| 10 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 teach | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | that thing | me | yonder property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | that thing not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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