Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 40
I dare say from many I should hear the words, 'Please to walk in.'
Who acts: I, words · What happens: say, hear, walk in · To what, where: many · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, words), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | dare | dare | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 many | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hear | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hear | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hear | aux |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 walk | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walk | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 walk | punct |
| 13 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 15 walk | discourse |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 walk | mark |
| 15 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hear | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 walk | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | dare | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hear | should | I | many | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source wh-S_INF»: agent=Agent from many=Source clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | walk in | to-infinitive | the words | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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