Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 24
What you see yonder is the moon, and the one before it was the sun. It will come again to-morrow, and most likely teach you to run down into the ditch by the well; for I think the weather is going to change.
Who acts: you, moon, one, I, weather · What happens: see, be, come, teach, run down, think · To what, where: moon, morrow, you, ditch · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, moon, one, I), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 see | obj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 7 moon | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 moon | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moon | det |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | nsubj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 sun. | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sun. | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sun. | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun. | det |
| 16 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nmod |
| 17 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | conj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 morrow | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 to | punct |
| 23 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 teach | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 teach | cc |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 likely | advmod |
| 27 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 28 teach | advmod |
| 28 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 teach | iobj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 run | mark |
| 31 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 teach | xcomp |
| 32 | down | down | ADP | _ | 31 run | compound:prt |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 ditch | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ditch | det |
| 35 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 run | obl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 well | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 well | det |
| 38 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 run | obl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 think | punct |
| 40 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 think | mark |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 think | nsubj |
| 42 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 weather | det |
| 44 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 going | nsubj |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 going | aux |
| 46 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 think | ccomp |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 change | mark |
| 48 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 going | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the moon | yonder property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | moon | before the sun. | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | future | the one | morrow | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | teach speech: other | present | you not said here | you | likely property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 6 | run down | to-infinitive | you not said here | into the ditch result; by the well | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into ditch=Result | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | go | present · progressive | the weather | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | change | to-infinitive | the weather not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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