Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 71
Will you go with us, and become a bird of passage?
Who acts: you · What happens: go, become · To what, where: bird
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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 become | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 become | cc |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 become | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 passage | case |
| 12 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bird | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | you | with us | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | become | infinitive | a bird of passage | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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