Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 71
"You shall soon see what they can do," said the elf king.
Who acts: You, dances, elf king · What happens: see, do, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, dances, elf king), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 14 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 king | compound |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | shall | You | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | can | dances = dance | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the elf king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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