Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 74
Perhaps we shall find out some day, but we don't know now.
Who acts: we · What happens: find out, not know
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 find | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 find | compound:prt |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 find | conj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 know | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | shall | we | day | perhaps property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | we | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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