Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 75
“Don't strike my head off!” said Karen.
Who acts: Karen · What happens: not strike off, say · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Karen), 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 strike | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 strike | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 strike | advmod |
| 4 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strike | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 strike | compound:prt |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 strike | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 strike | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not strike off in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Karen | 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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