Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 12
We must put our arms akimbo, and make the elbow quite pointed, so as to keep these 'sen' people at a great distance."
Who acts: We, elbow · What happens: put, make, point, keep · To what, where: arms akimbo, sen people
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, elbow), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 akimbo | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 akimbo | compound |
| 6 | akimbo | akimbo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 make | cc |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 elbow | det |
| 11 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pointed | nsubj |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 pointed | advmod |
| 13 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 keep | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 keep | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 keep | mark |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 keep | mark |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | conj |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 people | det |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 sen | punct |
| 21 | sen | sen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 people | compound |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 sen | punct |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 keep | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 distance | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 distance | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 distance | amod |
| 27 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | must | We | our arms akimbo | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent akimbo=Goal | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | We not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | point | past | the elbow | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | We not said here | this sen people | at a great distance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme at distance=Location |
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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