Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 71

It was bright daylight, and he could not remember his dream, but that was not necessary, for we are not to know what will happen to us in the future.

Who acts: house, Tuk, that, we · What happens: be, not remember, not be, happen, dream · To what, where: bright daylight, dream, us, future · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, Tuk, that, we), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 daylight	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 daylight	cop
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 daylight	amod
4	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 remember	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 remember	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remember	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 remember	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 remember	advmod
10	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 daylight	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dream	nmod:poss
12	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remember	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 necessary	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 necessary	cc
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 necessary	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 necessary	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 necessary	advmod
18	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 remember	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 know	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 know	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 know	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 know	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 know	mark
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 necessary	conj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 happen	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 happen	aux
28	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 know	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 us	case
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 happen	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 future	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 future	det
33	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 happen	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 daylight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	house	bright daylight				tree rules
2	not remember	could	Tuk	Tuk's dream				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dream=Theme
3	not is	past	that				necessary property	tree rules
4	not is	present	we				know property	tree rules
5	happen	future			us	the future		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in future=Location
6	dream		Tuk					nom dream «cognition 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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