Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 33
Do you think that farther out in the wood there may be others of our race?"
Who acts: you, wood, our · What happens: think, be, race · 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, wood, our), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 be | mark |
| 5 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 out | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 wood | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 be | nsubj |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 be | expl |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 12 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 be | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 race | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 race | nmod:poss |
| 16 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 others | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | may | the wood | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | race | our | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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