Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 24
Therefore you must take pains and learn, so as to be ready when the drilling begins."
Who acts: you, drilling · What happens: take, learn, be, begin · To what, where: pains
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, drilling), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 take | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 learn | cc |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ready | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 ready | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 ready | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 ready | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ready | cop |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 take | advcl |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 begins | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 drilling | det |
| 16 | drilling | drilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 begins | nsubj |
| 17 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ready | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | must | you | pains | therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | |||
| 2 | learn | infinitive | you not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | begin | present | the drilling | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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