Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 22
To work and to lay eggs,' say they, and to provide for posterity, is to live out your time properly;' and that they truly do.
Who acts: eggs · What happens: work, lay, say, provide, be, do · To what, where: eggs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eggs), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 work | mark |
| 2 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lay | cc |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 lay | mark |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 work | conj |
| 6 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 work | conj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 say | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 provide | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 provide | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 provide | mark |
| 14 | provide | provide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 posterity | case |
| 16 | posterity | posterity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 provide | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 live | compound:prt |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 time | nmod:poss |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 live | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 20 live | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 work | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 work | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 do | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 do | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 do | nsubj |
| 30 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 31 do | advmod |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 work | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | to-infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lay | to-infinitive | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | eggs = egg | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||||
| 4 | provide | to-infinitive | for posterity | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for posterity=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | is | present | time | live, properly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | present | eggs = egg | truly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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