Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 68
Perhaps I may, for we know not what may happen in the future."
Who acts: we · What happens: not know, happen · To what, where: future · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. 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 | _ | 3 may | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 may | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 may | conj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 happen | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 happen | aux |
| 11 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 future | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 future | det |
| 14 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 happen | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 may | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 may | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | may | the future | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in future=Location |
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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