Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 7
Well, it is quite hollow inside, and you must climb to the top, when you will see a hole, through which you can let yourself down into the tree to a great depth.
Who acts: tree, you · What happens: be, climb, see, let down · To what, where: top, hole, yourself, great depth, tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, you), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 hollow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hollow | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hollow | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 hollow | advmod |
| 6 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 hollow | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 climb | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 climb | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 climb | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 climb | aux |
| 12 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hollow | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 top | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 top | det |
| 15 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 climb | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 see | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 climb | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hole | det |
| 22 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 let | punct |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 let | obl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 let | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 let | aux |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 climb | conj |
| 29 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 let | obj |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 let | compound:prt |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 tree | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tree | det |
| 33 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 let | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 depth | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 depth | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 depth | amod |
| 37 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 let | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hollow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tree | hollow, inside property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | climb | must | you | the top | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | future | you | a hole | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | let down | can | you | yourself | a great depth | the tree | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme to depth=Recipient |
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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