Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 247
“Be reasonable, or I will call the guard!”
Who acts: you, shadow · What happens: be, call · To what, where: guard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, shadow), 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 | _ | 3 reasonable | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reasonable | cop |
| 3 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 call | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 call | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | aux |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reasonable | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 guard | det |
| 10 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 reasonable | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reasonable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | reasonable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | future | the shadow = shadow | the guard | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guard=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/247/