Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 61
Do you hear? he answers 'Yes,' but he fears that we shall not like to look at him."
Who acts: you, conjuror, we · What happens: hear, answer, fear, not like, look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, conjuror, 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answers | nsubj |
| 6 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | parataxis |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yes | punct |
| 8 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 answers | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yes | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yes | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 fears | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fears | nsubj |
| 13 | fears | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 answers | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 like | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 like | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 like | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 like | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fears | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 look | mark |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 like | xcomp |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 look | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · do-support | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | conjuror | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fear | present | conjuror | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not like | shall | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | at conjuror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
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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