Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 7
Shall we go there and see what the cause of it is?"
Who acts: we, cause · What happens: go, see, be, cause · To what, where: sound · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, cause), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 is | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cause | det |
| 9 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 is | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cause | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | shall | we | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | present | the cause of sound | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cause | sound | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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