Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 30
So I think my husband and I will stay where we are; although we are not very happy, but we shall stay."
Who acts: I, we · What happens: think, stay, be, not be · To what, where: husband
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 think | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 think | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stay | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 stay | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stay | aux |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | conj |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 are | advmod |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 are | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stay | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 happy | punct |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 19 happy | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 happy | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 happy | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 happy | advmod |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 happy | advmod |
| 19 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stay | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 stay | cc |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 stay | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 stay | aux |
| 24 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 stay | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | my husband | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot husband=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | future | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | present | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | we | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stay | shall | we | 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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