Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 3
It must look very grand," thought he, "for my wife to have a sentry guarding her nest.
Who acts: leg, sentry · What happens: look, think, have, guard · To what, where: sentry, nest
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 (leg, sentry), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | aux |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 grand | advmod |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | advcl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wife | acl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sentry | det |
| 18 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | guarding | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 sentry | acl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 nest | nmod:poss |
| 21 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 guarding | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | must | leg | grand property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | leg not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | leg not said here | a sentry | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentry=Patient | ||||
| 4 | guard | gerund | a sentry not said here | wife's nest | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Beneficiary |
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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