Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 52
I think he will grow up strong, and able to take care of himself."
Who acts: I, child · What happens: think, grow up, take · To what, where: care · 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 (I, child), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | aux |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 think | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 grow | compound:prt |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grow | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 able | cc |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 think | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 take | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow up | future | child | strong property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | I not said here | care | of child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of himself=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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