Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 75
"We must see first, how you acquit yourselves at the grand review," said she. "
Who acts: We, you, mother · What happens: see, acquit, say · To what, where: yourselves, grand review · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, you, mother), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 see | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 acquit | punct |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 acquit | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 acquit | nsubj |
| 9 | acquit | acquit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | conj |
| 10 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 acquit | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 review | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 review | det |
| 13 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 review | amod |
| 14 | review | review | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 acquit | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | advcl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | must | We | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | acquit in a quote | present | you | yourselves | the grand review | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer yourselves=Source | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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