Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 57
"We know who will eat soup and pancakes; we know who will eat porridge and cutlets; oh, how interesting!"
Who acts: We · What happens: know, eat · To what, where: soup, porridge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 eat | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | aux |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | ccomp |
| 7 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pancakes | cc |
| 9 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 soup | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 know | ccomp |
| 16 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cutlets | cc |
| 18 | cutlets | cutlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 porridge | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 interesting | punct |
| 20 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 23 interesting | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 interesting | punct |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 interesting | advmod |
| 23 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 know | parataxis |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 interesting | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | future | soup and pancakes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | future | porridge and cutlets | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient |
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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