Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 3
We must not imagine that there is nothing at the bottom of the sea but bare yellow sand.
Who acts: We, nothing · What happens: not imagine, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, nothing), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 imagine | advmod |
| 4 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 is | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | ccomp |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 is | nsubj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 bottom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottom | det |
| 11 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bottom | nmod |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 sand | cc |
| 16 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sand | amod |
| 17 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sand | amod |
| 18 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | must | We | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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