Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 20
“But do not stop me now--I may overtake him--I may find my child!”
Who acts: you, mother · What happens: not stop, overtake, find · To what, where: mother, Death, child
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother), 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 stop | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stop | cc |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stop | advmod |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stop | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stop | advmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 overtake | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 overtake | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 overtake | aux |
| 11 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stop | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 overtake | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stop | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 child | nmod:poss |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the mother = mother | now | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality i=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | overtake in a quote | may | the mother = mother | Death | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | may | the mother = mother | my child | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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