Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 5
I can hide the two suits of feathers over yonder, till we find some use for them."
Who acts: I, we, some · What happens: hide, find, use · To what, where: two suits · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, some), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hide | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hide | aux |
| 3 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 suits | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 suits | nummod |
| 6 | suits | suit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hide | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 feathers | case |
| 8 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 suits | nmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 yonder | case |
| 10 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 3 hide | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hide | parataxis |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 use | nsubj |
| 16 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | ccomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 use | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hide | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | can | I | the two suits of feathers | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent suit=Patient over yonder=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | present | we | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | use | present | some | for feathers = feather | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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