Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 10
I suppose your mother is busy washing the clothes down by the river, and you are going to carry that thing to her that you have in your pocket.
Who acts: I, mother, you · What happens: suppose, be, wash down, go, carry, have · To what, where: clothes, thing, woman, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mother, you), 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 | 2 suppose | nsubj |
| 2 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 busy | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 busy | cop |
| 6 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 suppose | ccomp |
| 7 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 busy | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clothes | det |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 washing | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 washing | compound:prt |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 washing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 going | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 going | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 suppose | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 carry | mark |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 going | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 thing | det |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | obl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 carry | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 pocket | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 30 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obl | ||
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | your mother | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wash down | gerund | your mother not said here | the clothes | by the river | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | |||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | carry | to-infinitive | you not said here | that thing | woman | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme to she=Destination | |||
| 6 | have | present | you | your pocket | 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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