Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 55

We will tell something that has happened to ourselves; that will be very easy, and interesting as well.

Who acts: We, that · What happens: tell, happen, be · To what, where: something, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, that), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 tell	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 happened	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 happened	aux
7	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 something	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 ourselves	case
9	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 happened	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 easy	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 easy	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 easy	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 easy	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 easy	advmod
15	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tell	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 interesting	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 interesting	cc
18	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 easy	conj
19	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	18 interesting	advmod
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 as	fixed
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	We	something			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Recipient
2	happen	present · perfect			ourselves		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	future	that			easy property	tree rules
4	be		that not said here				tree rules

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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