Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 14
If you understand the crows' language then I can explain it better.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: understand, explain · To what, where: language
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 understand | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 explain | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crows | det |
| 5 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 language | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 crows | case |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 understand | obj |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 explain | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 explain | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 explain | aux |
| 11 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 explain | obj |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 explain | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the crows's language | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | can | I | language | then | good property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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