Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 104
We are scarcely aware of their existence; and Anne Lisbeth did not think of any of her errors.
Who acts: We, senses, Anne · What happens: be, not think, exist, err
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, senses, Anne), 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 aware | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 aware | cop |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 aware | advmod |
| 4 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 existence | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 existence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aware | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Anne | cc |
| 10 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 think | vocative |
| 11 | Lisbeth | Lisbeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Anne | flat |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 think | advmod |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 aware | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 any | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 think | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 errors | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 errors | nmod:poss |
| 19 | errors | error | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 any | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | of senses's existence; aware, scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | We not said here | of any; Anne vocative | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | exist | senses = sens | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | err | Anne | nom error «act 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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