Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 12
To hang one's self is to die a mean death, and poison is not always at hand, I know; but he thought of both.
Who acts: poison, I, hero · What happens: hang, be, not be, know, think · To what, where: self, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poison, I, hero), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 hang | mark |
| 2 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 die | advcl |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 self | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 one | case |
| 5 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hang | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 die | mark |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 death | det |
| 10 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 death | amod |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 die | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hand | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hand | cc |
| 14 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hand | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hand | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 hand | advmod |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 hand | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 die | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | parataxis |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 thought | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 thought | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thought | nsubj |
| 26 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 both | case |
| 28 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 thought | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | to-infinitive | one's self | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent self=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | die property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | poison | hand | always property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | hero | of both | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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