Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 17
These two have some little boys, young thoughts, that can grow.
Who acts: two, that · What happens: have, grow · To what, where: little boys
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, that), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 two | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 boys | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boys | amod |
| 6 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thoughts | punct |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thoughts | amod |
| 9 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 boys | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grow | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 grow | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 grow | aux |
| 13 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 boys | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this two | some little boys and young thoughts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | can | that | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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