Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 59
You can look into the room from where you stand, and see where I was master once; for I was indeed master to the housekeeper.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: look, stand, see, be
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 | 3 look | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | aux |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 10 stand | mark |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 stand | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 stand | nsubj |
| 10 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 look | conj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 master | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 master | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 master | cop |
| 17 | master | mast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 see | xcomp |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 master | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 master | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 master | case |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 master | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 master | cop |
| 23 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 master | advmod |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 housekeeper | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 housekeeper | det |
| 27 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 master | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | can | You | into the room | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | You not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | I | mast, once property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | I | for master; to the housekeeper; indeed property | tree rules |
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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