Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 11
All are not born to lie on the lap and to drink milk: I have never been petted in this way, but I have seen a little dog seated in the place of a gentleman or lady, and travelling inside a post-chaise.
Who acts: I · What happens: not bear, lie, drink, not pet, see, seat · To what, where: All, lap, milk, I, way, little dog
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 born | advmod |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lie | mark |
| 6 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 born | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 lap | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lap | det |
| 9 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drink | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 drink | mark |
| 12 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lie | conj |
| 13 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drink | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 petted | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 petted | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 petted | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 petted | advmod |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 petted | aux:pass |
| 19 | petted | pet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 born | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 petted | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 seen | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 seen | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 seen | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 seen | aux |
| 27 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 petted | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dog | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dog | amod |
| 30 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 seen | obj |
| 31 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 dog | acl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 place | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 place | det |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seated | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 gentleman | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 gentleman | det |
| 37 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 place | nmod |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 lady | cc |
| 39 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gentleman | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 travelling | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 travelling | cc |
| 42 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 born | advcl |
| 43 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 45 post-chaise | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 post-chaise | det |
| 45 | post-chaise | post-chaise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 travelling | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | present · passive | All | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lie | to-infinitive | the lap | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location | |||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not pet | present · perfect · passive | I | this way | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | see | present · perfect | I | a little dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | seat | participle | a little dog not said here | the place of a gentleman or lady | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 7 | travel | gerund | a post-chaise | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside post-chaise=Trajectory |
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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