Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 101
Believe me, it is delightful to ascend so high, tomorrow we shall be there."
Who acts: you, it, we · What happens: believe, be, ascend · To what, where: me, tomorrow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it, 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 | Believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Believe | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 delightful | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 delightful | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 delightful | cop |
| 6 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Believe | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ascend | mark |
| 8 | ascend | ascend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 delightful | csubj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 high | advmod |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ascend | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tomorrow | punct |
| 12 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delightful | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 there | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 there | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 there | cop |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 tomorrow | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Believe | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | imperative | you not said here | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | tomorrow | delightful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ascend | to-infinitive | high property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | shall | we | tomorrow not said here | there property | 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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