Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 111
Do you think she would like to swim, or to let the water close over her head?"
Who acts: you, mistress · What happens: think, like, swim, let · To what, where: water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mistress), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 like | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | aux |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 swim | mark |
| 8 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 like | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 let | mark |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | obj |
| 15 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 let | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 close | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | like | would | mistress | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | swim not said to happen | to-infinitive | mistress not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | the water | close property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
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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