Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 56
“Don't touch the flower!” said the old woman.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: not touch, say · To what, where: flower · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old woman), 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 | _ | 4 touch | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 touch | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 touch | advmod |
| 4 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touch | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 touch | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 touch | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the flower | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flower=Co-Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the old woman | 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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