Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 118
Are you not in a warm room, and in society from which you may learn something.
Who acts: you · What happens: not be, learn · To what, where: warm room, something, society
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), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 room | cop |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 room | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 room | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 society | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 society | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 society | case |
| 11 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | appos |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 learn | obl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 learn | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 learn | aux |
| 16 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 society | acl:relcl |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 learn | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 room | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | you | a warm room | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | may | you | something | society | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent something=Topic from which=Source |
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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