Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 71
But do not cry, we will manage to get you in; my sweetheart knows a little back-staircase that leads to the sleeping apartments, and she knows where to find the key."
Who acts: you, we, sweetheart, little back staircase, plenty · What happens: not cry, manage, get in, know, lead, find · To what, where: you, little back staircase, key · 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 (you, we, sweetheart, little back staircase), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 cry | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cry | advmod |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 manage | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 manage | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 manage | aux |
| 8 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cry | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 manage | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 get | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 get | compound:prt |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 knows | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knows | nsubj |
| 16 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 staircase | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 staircase | amod |
| 19 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 staircase | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 back | punct |
| 21 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knows | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 leads | nsubj |
| 23 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 staircase | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 apartments | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 apartments | det |
| 26 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 apartments | amod |
| 27 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 leads | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 knows | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 knows | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 knows | nsubj |
| 31 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 knows | conj |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 find | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 find | mark |
| 34 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 knows | ccomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 key | det |
| 36 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 find | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cry speech: express | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | manage | future | we | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get in | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | know | present | my sweetheart | a little back staircase | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer staircase=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | lead | present | a little back staircase | to the sleeping apartments | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to apartment=Patient | ||||
| 6 | know | present | plenty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | find | to-infinitive | the key | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=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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