Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 30
We can never conduct ourselves like that in this country."
Who acts: We · What happens: not conduct · To what, where: ourselves, country
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 conduct | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 conduct | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 conduct | advmod |
| 4 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 conduct | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 conduct | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conduct | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conduct | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 conduct | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not conduct | can | We | ourselves | this country | like that | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme in country=Destination |
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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