Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 58
“You must not let it grieve you so much,” said the little boy.
Who acts: You, grave, little boy · What happens: not let, grieve, say · To what, where: grave, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, grave, little 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 let | advmod |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 grieve | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 grieve | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boy | amod |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in a quote | must | You | grave | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grieve in a quote | infinitive | grave not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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