Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 142
The boy did not know whether he had better jump into the Arno, or go home and confess everything.
Who acts: boy · What happens: not know, have, go, confess · To what, where: better jump, Arno, everything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 jump | amod |
| 10 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 Arno | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Arno | det |
| 13 | Arno | Arno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | parataxis |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 confess | cc |
| 19 | confess | confess | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | conj |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 confess | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | past | boy | better jump | the Arno | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Patient | |||
| 3 | go | infinitive | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | confess | infinitive | everything | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |
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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