Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 116
If the lady and her visitors can laugh at this, surely you can.
Who acts: lady · What happens: laugh · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 laugh | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laugh | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 visitors | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 visitors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lady | conj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 laugh | aux |
| 8 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 laugh | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 surely | punct |
| 12 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 8 laugh | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 can | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 surely | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | can | the lady and lady's visitors | this | surely property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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