Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 82
If you will take the lamp I will walk before you.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: take, walk · To what, where: lamp
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 | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lamp | det |
| 6 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 walk | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 walk | aux |
| 9 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | parataxis |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 walk | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | you | the lamp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | future | I | before you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before you=Trajectory |
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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