Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 89
Lean your little head against us."
Who acts: you · What happens: lean · To what, where: little head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Lean | lean | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 head | amod |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lean | obj |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Lean | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lean | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean | imperative | you not said here | your little head | against us | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme against we=Destination |
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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