Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 54
My friend, be a winter gauk."
Who acts: friend · What happens: be · To what, where: winter gauk
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 (friend), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gauk | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 friend | punct |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gauk | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gauk | det |
| 6 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gauk | compound |
| 7 | gauk | gauk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gauk | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 gauk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | My friend | a winter gauk | tree rules |
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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