Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 108
"But supposing the climate and the material are not good for much," said the fifth brother, "that would be very unfortunate for you, and have an influence over your experiments.
Who acts: material, fifth brother, that, your · What happens: suppose, not be, say, be, have, experiment · To what, where: climate, influence, experiments · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (material, fifth brother, that, your), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposing | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 supposing | cc |
| 3 | supposing | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 climate | det |
| 5 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 supposing | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 good | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 material | det |
| 8 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 good | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 good | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 good | advmod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 supposing | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 much | case |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 good | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposing | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposing | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 brother | det |
| 18 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 brother | amod |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 unfortunate | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 unfortunate | punct |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 unfortunate | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 unfortunate | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 unfortunate | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 unfortunate | advmod |
| 26 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 unfortunate | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 have | cc |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 influence | det |
| 33 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 have | obj |
| 34 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 experiments | case |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 experiments | nmod:poss |
| 36 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 have | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | gerund | the climate | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent climate=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | the material | for much; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the fifth brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | would | that | for you; unfortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | the fifth brother not said here | a influence | your experiments | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Patient | |||
| 6 | experiment in a quote | your | nom experiment «act intransitive»: poss=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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