Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 43
Yes, we have endured and suffered, that is to say, our forefathers have; they and we, it is all one."
Who acts: that, forefathers · What happens: endure, suffer, be, have · To what, where: we, one · 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 (that, forefathers), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 endured | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 endured | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 endured | aux |
| 5 | endured | endure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 suffered | cc |
| 7 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 endured | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 say | nsubj:outer |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 endured | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 forefathers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | forefathers | forefather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | ccomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 one | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 one | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 one | cc |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 one | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 we | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 one | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 one | cop |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 one | advmod |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 endured | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 endured | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 endured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endure | present · perfect · passive | we | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Circumstance | |||||
| 2 | suffer | participle | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | be speech: assert | present | that | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | our forefathers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | forefathers = forefather | one | all property | tree rules |
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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