Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 74

I strike bad people's heads off; and I hear that my axe rings!”

Who acts: I · What happens: strike off, hear · To what, where: heads

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 strike	nsubj
2	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heads	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 people	case
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strike	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	2 strike	compound:prt
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 hear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hear	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
11	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 strike	conj
12	that	that	ADP	_	15 rings	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 axe	nmod:poss
14	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rings	compound
15	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hear	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 strike	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 strike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike off	present	I	bad people's heads					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	hear	present	I					that axe rings	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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