Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 7
We should suit so well; you spring, and I dance.
Who acts: We, you, I · What happens: suit, spring, dance
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 (We, you, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suit | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 suit | aux |
| 3 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 suit | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 spring | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 spring | nsubj |
| 8 | spring | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 suit | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dance | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dance | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 dance | nsubj |
| 12 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spring | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit | should | We | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spring | present | you | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dance | present | I | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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