Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 13
Do you imagine this is the whole world?" asked the mother; "Wait till you have seen the garden; it stretches far beyond that to the parson's field, but I have never ventured to such a distance.
Who acts: you, whole world, world, I · What happens: imagine, be, ask, wait, see, stretch · To what, where: this, whole world, mother, garden, field, distance · 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, whole world, world, I), 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 imagine | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 world | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 imagine | obj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 world | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 world | amod |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 world | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 world | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mother | det |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Wait | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Wait | punct |
| 16 | Wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | conj |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 Wait | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 garden | det |
| 22 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stretches | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stretches | nsubj |
| 25 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | parataxis |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 stretches | advmod |
| 27 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 28 that | case |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 stretches | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 field | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 parson | det |
| 31 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 field | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 parson | case |
| 33 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stretches | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ventured | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 ventured | cc |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 ventured | nsubj |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 ventured | aux |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 39 ventured | advmod |
| 39 | ventured | venture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 stretches | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 distance | case |
| 41 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 distance | det:predet |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 distance | det |
| 43 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ventured | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | present · do-support | you | this | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the whole world | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the whole world | the mother | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wait | infinitive | the whole world not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | present · perfect | you | the garden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | stretch | present | world | the parson's field | beyond that; far property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to field=Location | |||
| 7 | not venture | present · perfect | I | such distance | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to distance=Recipient |
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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