Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 10
Perhaps you do not know that my father and mother were morocco slippers, and that I have a Spanish cork in my body."
Who acts: you, father, I · What happens: not know, be, have · To what, where: Spanish cork, body · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, father, I), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 know | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 were | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 were | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mother | cc |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | conj |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 12 | morocco | morocco | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 slippers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 were | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cork | det |
| 20 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cork | amod |
| 21 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 body | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 body | nmod:poss |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cork | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | you | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | past | my father and mother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | a Spanish cork | my body | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cork=Patient |
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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