Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 98
Now I do not know, and probably even they don't know themselves, for we live in strange times.
Who acts: I, passengers, we · What happens: not know, live · To what, where: passengers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, passengers, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 know | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 8 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 13 know | advmod |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 know | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | conj |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 live | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 live | nsubj |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | ccomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 times | case |
| 20 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 times | amod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 live | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | passengers = passenger | passengers = passenger | probably property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | live | present | we | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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