Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 39
"'I shall read yours also,' said Maecenas; 'but to speak honestly--you know I never hide my opinion from you--I don't expect much from it, for you are much too wild, too fantastic.
Who acts: Maecenas, you, my · What happens: read, say, speak, know, not hide, not expect · To what, where: yours, opinion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maecenas, you, my), 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 | _ | 5 read | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 read | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 read | aux |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 read | obj |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 read | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Maecenas | Maecenas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 ' | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 know | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 speak | mark |
| 16 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 know | advcl |
| 17 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 16 speak | advmod |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 speak | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ' | conj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 hide | nsubj |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 hide | advmod |
| 23 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | ccomp |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 25 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hide | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 hide | obl |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 expect | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 expect | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 expect | aux |
| 31 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 expect | advmod |
| 32 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 know | parataxis |
| 33 | much | much | ADV | _ | 32 expect | advmod |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 expect | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 wild | punct |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 wild | mark |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 wild | nsubj |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 wild | cop |
| 40 | much | much | ADV | _ | 42 wild | advmod |
| 41 | too | too | ADV | _ | 42 wild | advmod |
| 42 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 expect | advcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 fantastic | punct |
| 44 | too | too | ADV | _ | 45 fantastic | advmod |
| 45 | fantastic | fantastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 wild | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read in a quote | shall | Maecenas | yours | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent your=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Maecenas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | honestly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not hide in a quote | present | Maecenas | my opinion | from you | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient from you=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | not expect in a quote | present · do-support | Maecenas | opinion | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | you | wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | opine in a quote | my | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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