Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 154

You shall sing only when it pleases you; and I will break the artificial bird into a thousand pieces."

Who acts: You, sun, I · What happens: sing, please, break · To what, where: you, artificial bird, thousand pieces

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, sun, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sing	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	aux
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 pleases	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 pleases	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pleases	nsubj
7	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 pleases	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 break	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 break	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 break	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 break	aux
13	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sing	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
15	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bird	amod
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 break	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 pieces	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thousand	det
19	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 pieces	nummod
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 break	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	shall	You			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	please	present	sun	you		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
3	break	future	I	the artificial bird	into thousand pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent bird=Patient into piece=Result

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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