Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 3
Tell us your opinion--we'll keep to ours just the same though.
Who acts: you, we, your · What happens: tell, keep, opine · To what, where: opinion, us, ours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, your), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 4 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 keep | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 keep | nsubj |
| 7 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 keep | aux |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ours | case |
| 10 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 keep | obl |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 same | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 same | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 keep | xcomp |
| 14 | though | though | ADV | _ | 8 keep | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | your opinion | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient opinion=Topic | |||
| 2 | keep | future | we | ours | same, though property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | opine | your | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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