Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 15

We must keep to the left; it is much shorter."

Who acts: We, left · What happens: keep, be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, left), 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	3 keep	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 left	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 left	det
6	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 shorter	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shorter	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shorter	cop
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 shorter	advmod
11	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 keep	parataxis
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	must	We					to the left	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	left					short property	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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