Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 32
We shall soon find it out, however when we go to the water.
Who acts: We · What happens: find out, go · To what, where: egg, water
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 find | advmod |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 find | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 go | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | shall | We | egg | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | present | we | the water | however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial_Location |
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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