Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 112
Have you seen the most beautiful places in the world, and can you tell us all about them? and have you been in the storeroom, where cheeses lie on the shelf, and hams hang from the ceiling?
Who acts: you, cheeses, hams · What happens: see, tell, have, be, lie, hang · To what, where: beautiful places, world, us, storeroom, shelf, ceiling · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cheeses, hams), 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 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 places | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 places | amod |
| 7 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seen | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 places | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seen | parataxis |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 them | advmod |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 storeroom | nsubj |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 storeroom | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 storeroom | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 storeroom | det |
| 27 | storeroom | storeroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lie | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 lie | advmod |
| 30 | cheeses | cheese | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 lie | nsubj |
| 31 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 storeroom | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 shelf | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shelf | det |
| 34 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lie | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hang | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 hang | cc |
| 37 | hams | ham | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 hang | nsubj |
| 38 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | parataxis |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 ceiling | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 ceiling | det |
| 41 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hang | obl |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | you | the beautiful places | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | can | you | us | about branches = branch | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient about they=Topic | |||
| 3 | have | present | you not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | participle | you | the storeroom | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lie | present | cheeses | the shelf | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shelf=Location | ||||
| 6 | hang | present | hams | the ceiling | 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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