Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 20
He foresaw that he should have to stay there till morning, and then they must send for a smith to file away the iron bars, and that would be a work of time.
Who acts: creature, goloshes, that · What happens: foresee, have, stay, send, file away, be · To what, where: iron bars, work
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, goloshes, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 foresaw | nsubj |
| 2 | foresaw | foresee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 foresaw | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stay | mark |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | xcomp |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stay | advmod |
| 10 | till | till | ADP | _ | 11 morning | case |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 send | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 send | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 send | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 send | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 send | aux |
| 17 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stay | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 smith | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 smith | det |
| 20 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 send | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 file | mark |
| 22 | file | file | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 send | advcl |
| 23 | away | away | ADP | _ | 22 file | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bars | det |
| 25 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bars | compound |
| 26 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 file | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 work | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 work | cc |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 work | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 work | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 work | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 work | det |
| 33 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 foresaw | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 work | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 foresaw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foresee | past | creature | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | should | creature | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | creature not said here | there | morning | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | send | must | goloshes = golosh | then | for a smith | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | file away | to-infinitive | goloshes = golosh not said here | the iron bars | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a | would | that | a work | time | 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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