Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 82
I would not have it in the house another hour; there is no knowing if he may not be still there."
Who acts: I, farmer · What happens: not have, be, know, not be · To what, where: chest, house
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 (I, farmer), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 hour | det |
| 10 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 knowing | det |
| 15 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 is | advcl |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 there | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 there | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 there | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 there | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 there | cop |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 there | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 knowing | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | would | I | chest | the house another hour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | be | present | I not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | gerund | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not is a condition, not said to happen | may | farmer | still | there 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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