Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 44
It is a horrible story: I will not keep it to myself, but let it go farther."
Who acts: Sleep, I · What happens: be, not keep, let, go · To what, where: horrible story, Sleep, myself
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sleep, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 story | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 keep | advmod |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 story | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 myself | case |
| 13 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 keep | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sleep | a horrible story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not keep | future | I | Sleep | myself | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | I not said here | Sleep | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | Sleep not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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