Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 92
But are you aware that every word we speak is being taken down, and will be published in the paper to-morrow?
Who acts: you, we · What happens: be, speak, take down, publish · To what, where: word, paper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 aware | cc |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 aware | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 aware | nsubj |
| 4 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 taken | mark |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 speak | nsubj |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 word | acl:relcl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 aware | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 taken | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 published | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 published | cc |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 published | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 published | aux:pass |
| 18 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 aware | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 paper | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 paper | det |
| 21 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 published | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 morrow | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 published | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | we | every word not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take down | present · passive | every word | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | publish | future · passive | you not said here | the paper | to morrow | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/28/92/