Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 98
I am a copying-clerk at the police-office; and you know you cannot insult any belonging to the constabulary force without a chastisement.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, know, not insult · To what, where: copying clerk, police, belonging · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | 6 clerk | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clerk | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 clerk | det |
| 4 | copying | copying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clerk | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 copying | punct |
| 6 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 police | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 police | det |
| 9 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clerk | nmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 office | punct |
| 11 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 police | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 know | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clerk | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 insult | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 insult | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 insult | advmod |
| 19 | insult | insult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | ccomp |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 belonging | det |
| 21 | belonging | belonging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 insult | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 force | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 force | det |
| 24 | constabulary | constabulary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 force | compound |
| 25 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 insult | obl |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 chastisement | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 chastisement | det |
| 28 | chastisement | chastisement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 insult | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clerk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a copying clerk | the police and office | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not insult | can | you | any belonging | to the constabulary force; without a chastisement | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus belonging=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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