Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 6
Will you now set the kettle on the fire--so?
Who acts: you · What happens: set · To what, where: kettle, fire
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 set | advmod |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kettle | det |
| 6 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 so | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 set | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | future | you | the kettle | the fire | now | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme on fire=Destination |
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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