Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 9
My arm is strong enough to carry you through the wood; and will not all our wings be strong enough to fly with you over the sea?"
Who acts: arm, wings · What happens: be, carry, fly · To what, where: you, wood, sea
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arm, wings), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 arm | nmod:poss |
| 2 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | cop |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 strong | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 carry | mark |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 strong | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 carry | obj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 strong | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 strong | cc |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 strong | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 all | advmod |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 wings | det:predet |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 strong | nsubj |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 strong | cop |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 strong | parataxis |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 strong | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 fly | mark |
| 23 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 strong | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 fly | obl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fly | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My arm | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | My arm not said here | you | the wood | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | future | our wings | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly | to-infinitive | our wings not said here | the sea | with you | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location |
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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