Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 26
And here is a nettle: what may its leaves tell us?
Who acts: nettle, leaves · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: nettle, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nettle, leaves), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 here | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 here | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 nettle | det |
| 5 | nettle | nettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 here | nsubj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 tell | obj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 10 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nettle | acl:relcl |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a nettle | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | may | nettle's leaves | a nettle | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient what=Topic |
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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