Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 48
It must be very tiresome to stand on the stairs,' he said. '
Who acts: It, sweetheart · What happens: be, stand, say · To what, where: stairs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (It, sweetheart), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tiresome | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tiresome | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tiresome | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 tiresome | advmod |
| 5 | tiresome | tiresome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stand | mark |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tiresome | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 stairs | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stairs | det |
| 10 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stand | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tiresome | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tiresome | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 tiresome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | It | tiresome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | the stairs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stair=Location | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | sweetheart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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