Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 40
I will find out something for you to think of which he will never guess, unless he is a greater conjuror than myself.
Who acts: I, magician · What happens: find out, think, not guess, be · To what, where: something, greater conjuror · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, magician), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 find | compound:prt |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 find | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 something | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 think | mark |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 something | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 guess | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 guess | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 guess | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 guess | advmod |
| 15 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 think | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 conjuror | punct |
| 17 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 22 conjuror | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 conjuror | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 conjuror | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 conjuror | det |
| 21 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 conjuror | amod |
| 22 | conjuror | conjuror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 guess | ccomp |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 myself | case |
| 24 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 conjuror | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | future | I | something | for you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | something not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not guess | future | magician | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent of which=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | magician | a greater conjuror | than myself | 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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