Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 75
May we ask you to step down into this rich mud, you must be fatigued after your journey."
Who acts: we, your · What happens: ask, step down, fatigue, journey · To what, where: you, rich mud · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, your), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 step | mark |
| 6 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 step | compound:prt |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 mud | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 mud | det |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mud | amod |
| 11 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 step | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 fatigued | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fatigued | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fatigued | aux:pass |
| 16 | fatigued | fatigue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ask | ccomp |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 journey | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 journey | nmod:poss |
| 19 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fatigued | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | may | we | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | step down not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | this rich mud | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fatigue | must · passive | you | after your journey | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | journey | your | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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