Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 119
We must not lose patience, we must learn to wait.
Who acts: We · What happens: not lose, learn, wait · To what, where: patience
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lose | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lose | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 lose | advmod |
| 4 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lose | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 learn | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 learn | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 learn | aux |
| 9 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lose | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wait | mark |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 learn | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose | must | We | patience | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | learn | must | we | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | we not said here | 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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