Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 37
We are to go to the ants to learn wisdom, and I had got the queen.
Who acts: We, I · What happens: be, learn, get · To what, where: wisdom, queen
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 (We, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ants | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ants | det |
| 7 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 learn | mark |
| 9 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | advcl |
| 10 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 learn | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 go | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 queen | det |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | to the ants; go property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | We not said here | wisdom | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | I | the queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |
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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