Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 33
I am quite curious to know what the miller will say when he finds out this engagement."
Who acts: I, miller, other · What happens: be, know, say, find out · To what, where: engagement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, miller, other), 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 curious | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 curious | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 curious | advmod |
| 4 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 curious | csubj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 say | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 miller | det |
| 9 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | aux |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 know | ccomp |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 finds | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 finds | nsubj |
| 14 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 finds | compound:prt |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 engagement | det |
| 17 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 finds | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 curious | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | future | the miller | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | find out | present | other | this engagement | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engagement=Topic |
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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