Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 53
There are certain things in the world which should be uttered very cautiously; doubly so when the speaker has on his feet the goloshes of Fortune.
Who acts: certain things, speaker · What happens: be, utter, have · To what, where: certain things, feet
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain things, speaker), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 things | nmod |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 uttered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 uttered | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 uttered | aux:pass |
| 11 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 cautiously | advmod |
| 13 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 11 uttered | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
| 15 | doubly | doubly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 are | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 has | advmod |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 has | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 speaker | det |
| 19 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 has | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 feet | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 feet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 has | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 goloshes | det |
| 25 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 feet | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Fortune | case |
| 27 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 goloshes | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | certain things in the world | there | doubly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | should · passive | certain things in the world | cautiously property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the speaker | speaker's feet and the goloshes of Fortune | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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