Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 20
No, I am unable to imagine that, although you say so."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, imagine, say · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 unable | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 unable | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unable | cop |
| 5 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 imagine | mark |
| 7 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unable | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 imagine | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 10 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 say | nsubj |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unable | parataxis |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 say | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unable | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | imagine | to-infinitive | I not said here | that | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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