Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 67
I shall therefore be able to wait upon you every day in the week with a poetical history of a skewer.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, wait
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 able | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | aux |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 able | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 wait | mark |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wait | obl |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 week | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 week | det |
| 14 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 history | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 history | det |
| 17 | poetical | poetical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 history | amod |
| 18 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 skewer | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 skewer | det |
| 21 | skewer | skewer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 history | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | I | able, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | to-infinitive | I not said here | day; week | upon you; with a poetical history of a skewer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=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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