Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 28
Your ear is not sharpened to hear, and I fancy you do not say the Lord's Prayer in the evening.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not sharpen, hear, fancy, not say · To what, where: ear, Prayer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 ear | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sharpened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sharpened | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sharpened | advmod |
| 5 | sharpened | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sharpened | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fancy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fancy | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fancy | nsubj |
| 11 | fancy | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sharpened | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 say | advmod |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fancy | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lord | det |
| 17 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Prayer | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Lord | case |
| 19 | Prayer | Prayer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 say | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 evening | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 evening | det |
| 22 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sharpened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sharpen | present · passive | Your ear | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | fancy | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | the Lord's Prayer | evening | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic |
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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