Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 54
Now make yourself at home, and if you can find an eel's head, you can bring it to me."
Who acts: you · What happens: make, find, bring · To what, where: yourself, home, head, me
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 make | advmod |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bring | cc |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bring | advcl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 eel | det |
| 13 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 eel | case |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 bring | aux |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 make | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | yourself | home | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourself=Product | ||
| 2 | find a condition, not said to happen | can | you | a eel's head | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring | can | you | head | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination |
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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