Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 112
There must certainly be some relations of mine living here; I will just see if I can find any one with whom I can associate.
Who acts: relations, I · What happens: be, live, see, find, associate · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relations, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 be | expl |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 be | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 relations | det |
| 6 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 be | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mine | case |
| 8 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 relations | nmod |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 relations | acl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 living | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 be | parataxis |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | advcl |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 whom | case |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 associate | obl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 associate | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 associate | aux |
| 26 | associate | associate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 one | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | must | some relations of mine | there | certainly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | some relations of mine not said here | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | future | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | find a condition, not said to happen | can | I | any one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 5 | associate | can | I | with any one | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with whom=Co-Patient |
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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