Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 30
Should I be able to see these flowers?"
Who acts: I · What happens: be, see · To what, where: flowers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 able | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 flowers | det |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | this flowers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |
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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