Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 15
“Don't come so near me, I beg of you!” said the garter.
Who acts: garter · What happens: not come, beg, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garter), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beg | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | nsubj |
| 10 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garter | det |
| 17 | garter | garter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come in a quote | infinitive · do-support | near the garter = garter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near i=Location | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | the garter = garter | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the garter | 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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