Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 36
They, most likely, will know of a wife for our youngster."
Who acts: ants · What happens: know
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 They | punct |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 1 They | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 They | punct |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 youngster | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 youngster | nmod:poss |
| 13 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | future | ants = ant | of a wife for our youngster | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of wife=Stimulus |
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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