Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 105
Brother, let you and I go to church, as your father and Anastasia's father once did.
Who acts: Brother, I, father · What happens: let, go, do · To what, where: you, church
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brother, I, father), 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 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brother | punct |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 go | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 church | case |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 did | mark |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 did | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 father | cc |
| 15 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Anastasia | case |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 father | conj |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 did | advmod |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | Brother | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | present | I | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | do | past | your father and Anastasia's father | once property | vn act-114-1 «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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