Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 80
Babette will be there, and I shall be able to make her acquaintance."
Who acts: Babette, I, Interlachen · What happens: be, make, acquaint · To what, where: acquaintance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, I, Interlachen), 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 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 there | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 able | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 able | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 there | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | Babette | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | shall | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | Interlachen's acquaintance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product | ||||
| 4 | acquaint | Interlachen | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: 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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