Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 78
You stood very seriously all together, although it was difficult enough; but I laughed to myself, and then I fell off the table, and got a bump, which I have still--for it was not right of me to laugh.
Who acts: You, I, music · What happens: stand, be, laugh, fall off, get, have · To what, where: myself, table, bump
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, I, music), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 seriously | advmod |
| 4 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 2 stood | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 together | advmod |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 stood | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 difficult | punct |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 11 difficult | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 difficult | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 difficult | cop |
| 11 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 difficult | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 laughed | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 laughed | nsubj |
| 16 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 myself | case |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 laughed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 fell | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 laughed | advcl |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 table | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 table | det |
| 26 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 got | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 got | cc |
| 29 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 bump | det |
| 31 | bump | bump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 got | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 have | obj |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 have | nsubj |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 bump | acl:relcl |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 have | advmod |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 right | punct |
| 38 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 right | mark |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 right | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 right | cop |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 right | advmod |
| 42 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 got | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 me | case |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 right | obl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 laugh | mark |
| 46 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 right | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | You | seriously, together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | difficult, enough property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | laugh | past | I | myself | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to myself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | fall off | past | I | the table | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient table=Extent | |||
| 5 | get | past | a bump | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bump=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | have | present | I | a bump | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 7 | not is | past | music | of me; right property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | laugh | to-infinitive | music not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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: «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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