Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 23
How much I shall have to relate to him, and how many things he will be able to explain to me of the delights of heaven, and teach me as he once did on earth.
Who acts: I, much, many things, father, heaven · What happens: have, relate, be, explain, teach, do · To what, where: much, father, me, earth
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 (I, much, many things, father), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 have | obj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 relate | mark |
| 7 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 relate | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 able | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 able | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 many | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 able | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 able | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 able | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | cop |
| 18 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 have | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 explain | mark |
| 20 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 explain | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 delights | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 delights | det |
| 25 | delights | delight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 explain | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 heaven | case |
| 27 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 delights | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 teach | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 teach | cc |
| 30 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 explain | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 teach | obj |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 did | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 did | nsubj |
| 34 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 35 did | advmod |
| 35 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 teach | advcl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 earth | case |
| 37 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 did | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | I | much | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | relate | to-infinitive | much not said here | father | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | future | many things | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | many things not said here | me | of the delights of heaven | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | |||
| 5 | teach speech: other | infinitive | many things not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | do | past | father | earth | once property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | delight | heaven | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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