Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 32
"I may perhaps win a hundred thousand dollars in the lottery," said the naval officer's widow; "and if I do, we will travel--I and my daughter; and you, Mr. Alfred, must be our guide.
Who acts: widow, we, you · What happens: win, say, do, travel, be · To what, where: thousand dollars, lottery, widow, guide · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, we, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 win | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 win | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 win | aux |
| 4 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 win | advmod |
| 5 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thousand | compound |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 dollars | nummod |
| 9 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 win | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 lottery | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lottery | det |
| 12 | lottery | lottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dollars | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 win | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 win | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 officer | det |
| 17 | naval | naval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 officer | amod |
| 18 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 widow | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 officer | case |
| 20 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 travel | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 travel | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 travel | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 travel | aux |
| 30 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | conj |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 I | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 travel | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 daughter | cc |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 35 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 I | conj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 guide | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 guide | cc |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 guide | nsubj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Alfred | punct |
| 40 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Alfred | nmod:desc |
| 41 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 you | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 you | punct |
| 43 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 guide | aux |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 guide | cop |
| 45 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 guide | nmod:poss |
| 46 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | parataxis |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win in a quote | may | the naval officer's widow = widow | thousand dollars | the lottery | perhaps property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the naval officer's widow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the naval officer's widow = widow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | travel in a quote | future | we | the naval officer's widow = widow | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | must | you | our guide | 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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