Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 147
Now, we can speak our language over the whole earth--up in the North and in Egypt.
Who acts: we · What happens: speak · To what, where: language, whole earth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 speak | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 speak | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 speak | aux |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 language | nmod:poss |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speak | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 earth | amod |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speak | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 up | punct |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 earth | compound |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 North | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 North | det |
| 16 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 earth | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Egypt | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Egypt | case |
| 19 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 North | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | can | we | our language | the whole earth in the North and Egypt | now | 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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