Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 18
You will also wear a red shawl; and what if it hang too far down?
Who acts: You, shawl · What happens: wear, hang · To what, where: red shawl
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, shawl), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wear | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wear | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 wear | advmod |
| 4 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shawl | det |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shawl | amod |
| 7 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wear | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 wear | conj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 hang | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hang | nsubj |
| 13 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 down | advmod |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 hang | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | future | You | a red shawl | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shawl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang a condition, not said to happen | present | shawl | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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