Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 32
But have you ever thought where we are to get a wife for him?
Who acts: you, we · What happens: have, think, be, get · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 have | cc |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 thought | advmod |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | ccomp |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 get | advmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 where | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 where | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | you | ever | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | we | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | a wife | for youngster | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wife=Theme for he=Beneficiary |
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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