Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 29
Which are we to believe, the rats or the lovers?"
Who acts: we · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At 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 (we), 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 believe | obj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | cop |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 believe | mark |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rats | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rats | det |
| 8 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 believe | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 lovers | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lovers | det |
| 11 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rats | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | the rats or the lovers obl; believe 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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