Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 179
Seek it in the sun; see it there if you can.
Who acts: you · What happens: seek, see · To what, where: family, sun
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), 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 | Seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Seek | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seek | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Seek | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 see | advmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 can | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 can | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | imperative | you not said here | family | the sun | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sun=Location | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | family | there | 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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