Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 34
You will never succeed in this," said the lake; "let us make an agreement together which will be better.
Who acts: You, us · What happens: not succeed, say, let, make, be · To what, where: this, lake, us, agreement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, us), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 succeed | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 succeed | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 succeed | advmod |
| 4 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 succeed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 succeed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 succeed | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 agreement | det |
| 18 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 better | advmod |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 better | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 better | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 better | cop |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 make | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not succeed | future | You | this | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | You not said here | the lake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lake=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | You not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | us not said here | a agreement | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset agreement=Product | ||||
| 5 | is | future | good, together property | tree rules |
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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