Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 17
Do you pretend to be a guide, and not know the road better than that?"
Who acts: you · What happens: pretend, be, not know · To what, where: guide, road
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 (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretend | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pretend | nsubj |
| 3 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 guide | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 guide | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 guide | det |
| 7 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pretend | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pretend | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 road | det |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obj |
| 14 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 know | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 better | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretend | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | you not said here | a guide | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | infinitive | you not said here | the road | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus |
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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