Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 87
We might fancy the soul inquiring of the police, or at the address office, or among the missing parcels, and then at length finding it at the hospital.
Who acts: We, soul, length · What happens: fancy, inquire, find · To what, where: soul, notice, hospital
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 (We, soul, length), 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 fancy | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fancy | aux |
| 3 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soul | det |
| 5 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fancy | obj |
| 6 | inquiring | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 soul | acl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 police | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 police | det |
| 9 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 inquiring | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 office | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 office | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 office | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 office | det |
| 14 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 office | compound |
| 15 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 police | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 parcels | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 parcels | cc |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 parcels | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 parcels | det |
| 20 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 parcels | amod |
| 21 | parcels | parcel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 office | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 length | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 length | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 length | advmod |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 length | case |
| 26 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fancy | parataxis |
| 27 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 length | acl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 finding | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 hospital | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hospital | det |
| 31 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 finding | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | might | We | the soul | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soul=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | gerund | the soul not said here | of the police or the address office or the missing parcels | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of police=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | length not said here | notice | the hospital | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at hospital=Asset |
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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