Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 9
I do not understand it, and very likely you will not, but that is of no consequence.
Who acts: I, that · What happens: not understand, be · To what, where: story
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, that), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 understand | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 understand | advmod |
| 4 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 understand | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 will | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 will | cc |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 likely | advmod |
| 9 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 11 will | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 will | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 will | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 consequence | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 consequence | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 consequence | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 consequence | cop |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 consequence | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 consequence | det |
| 19 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 understand | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | present · do-support | I | story | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | of no consequence | tree rules |
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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