Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 177
You may ask the naturalist, he will confess it is so; and you know it yourself, for you have seen it.
Who acts: You, Caterpillar · What happens: ask, confess, be, know, see · To what, where: naturalist, family
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 (You, Caterpillar), 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 | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 naturalist | det |
| 5 | naturalist | naturalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 confess | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 confess | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 confess | aux |
| 9 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 confess | obj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 so | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 confess | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 know | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | obj |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 know | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seen | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 seen | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 know | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seen | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | may | You | the naturalist | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent naturalist=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | confess | future | Caterpillar | family | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Caterpillar not said here | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | present | you | family | yourself obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | see | present · perfect | you | family | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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