Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 110

She ought to take all the rubbish off, and go as we do; then she would look something like a respectable barbel, so far as it is possible for a person to look like one!"

Who acts: Barbel, we, rubbish · What happens: take off, go, do, look, be · To what, where: rubbish, something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbel, we, rubbish), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 rubbish	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rubbish	det
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	4 take	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 do	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 go	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 look	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 look	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 look	aux
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	parataxis
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 look	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 barbel	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 barbel	det
23	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 barbel	amod
24	barbel	barbel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 something	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 far	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 far	advmod
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 look	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 possible	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 possible	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 possible	cop
31	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 far	advcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 person	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 person	det
34	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 look	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 look	mark
36	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 look	conj
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 one	case
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 look	obl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take off	ought	Barbel	all rubbish			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme
2	go	infinitive	Barbel not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	present	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	would	Barbel	something	then	like a respectable barbel; for a person; far property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Attribute
5	is	present	rubbish			possible property	tree rules
6	look	to-infinitive	Barbel not said here			like one	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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