Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 35
But we can give the ants a commission; they run here and there, as if they all had so much business to get through.
Who acts: we, ants · What happens: give, run, have, get through · To what, where: ants, much business
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 (we, ants), 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 | _ | 4 give | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ants | det |
| 6 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 commission | det |
| 8 | commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ants | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 run | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 run | nsubj |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | parataxis |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 run | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 there | cc |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 here | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 they | det |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | parataxis |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 business | amod |
| 23 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | advcl |
| 26 | through | through | ADV | _ | 25 get | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | can | we | the ants a commission | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | present | ants = ant | here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | ants = ant | much business | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient | ||||
| 4 | get through | to-infinitive | ants = ant not said here | through property | vn cope-83-1-1 «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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