Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 68
We should keep on one side, or under it, to be comfortable.
Who acts: We · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: stove, one side
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 side | nummod |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 it | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 it | cc |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 comfortable | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 comfortable | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 comfortable | cop |
| 14 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 keep | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | should | We | stove | one side | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on side=Location | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | We not said here | comfortable 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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