Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 73
It is a chance for you to get a wife; you may be lucky, ugly as you are."
Who acts: moor, you · What happens: be, get · To what, where: chance, wife
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 (moor, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chance | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 chance | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chance | det |
| 4 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 chance | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 lucky | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 lucky | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 lucky | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lucky | cop |
| 15 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chance | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ugly | punct |
| 17 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lucky | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 are | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 are | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ugly | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lucky | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 lucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | moor | a chance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | you | a wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | may | you | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | does | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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