Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 90
"'You are in my pocket; you can't come out till you promise to unite me to your daughter Glove on the left.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, not come out, promise, unite · To what, where: pocket, Waistcoat
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 | _ | 7 pocket | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pocket | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 pocket | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pocket | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pocket | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 7 | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root | ||
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 10 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 come | advmod |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pocket | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 promise | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 promise | nsubj |
| 16 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 unite | mark |
| 18 | unite | unite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 promise | xcomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 unite | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Glove | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Glove | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Glove | compound |
| 23 | Glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unite | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 left | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 left | det |
| 26 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Glove | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pocket | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | my pocket | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not come out in a quote | can | you | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | unite not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Waistcoat = waistcoat | to your daughter Glove on the left | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient to glove=Co-Patient |
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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