Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 1
You must attend to the commencement of this story, for when we get to the end we shall know more than we do now about a very wicked hobgoblin; he was one of the very worst, for he was a real demon.
Who acts: You, we, he · What happens: attend, get, know, hobgoblin, be · To what, where: more, one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we, he), 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 attend | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 attend | aux |
| 3 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 commencement | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 commencement | det |
| 6 | commencement | commencement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attend | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 commencement | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 get | advmod |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 attend | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 know | obl |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 get | parataxis |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 know | obj |
| 22 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 30 hobgoblin | mark |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 hobgoblin | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 hobgoblin | aux |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 hobgoblin | advmod |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 30 hobgoblin | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hobgoblin | det |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 wicked | advmod |
| 29 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hobgoblin | amod |
| 30 | hobgoblin | hobgoblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 more | advcl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 one | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 one | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 one | cop |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 attend | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 worst | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 worst | det |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 worst | advmod |
| 38 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 one | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 demon | punct |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 demon | case |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 demon | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 demon | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 demon | det |
| 44 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 demon | amod |
| 45 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 worst | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | must | You | to the commencement of this story | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to commencement=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | know | shall | we | more | to the end | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | hobgoblin | present · do-support | we | now | about property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | past | he | one | of the worst and a real demon | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is | past | he | for a real demon | 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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