Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 60
"'--On the wedding day, but no longer; you don't keep your color in the wash.'
Who acts: you · What happens: not keep · To what, where: color, wash
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ' | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 4 | On | on | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | compound |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 keep | cc |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 longer | advmod |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 keep | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 longer | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 keep | advmod |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 day | parataxis |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 color | nmod:poss |
| 18 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 wash | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wash | det |
| 21 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep in a quote | present · do-support | you | your color | the wash | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent color=Theme in wash=Location |
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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