Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 44
“Our son shall not go into an ant-hill; if you know nothing better than that, we shall give the commission to the white gnats.
Who acts: son, you, we · What happens: not go, know, give · To what, where: ant hill, nothing, commission, white gnats
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, you, we), 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 | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 2 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | advmod |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 hill | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hill | det |
| 9 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hill | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ant | punct |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | advcl |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 know | obj |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 nothing | amod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 that | case |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 better | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | aux |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 commission | det |
| 25 | commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 gnats | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gnats | det |
| 28 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 gnats | amod |
| 29 | gnats | gnat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 give | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | shall | Our son | a ant hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | shall | we | the commission | the white gnats | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent commission=Theme to gnat=Recipient |
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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