Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 20

You see now that a sword will be very useful."

Who acts: You, sword · What happens: see, be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, sword), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 see	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 useful	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sword	det
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 useful	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 useful	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 useful	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 useful	advmod
10	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 see	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You				now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	future	a sword					useful 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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