Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 42
You have been here longer than I have; do you know them?"
Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, have, know · To what, where: drops
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, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 here | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 here | cop |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 here | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 longer | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 here | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 know | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | You | here, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | present · do-support | you | drops = drop | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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