Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 69
"Now you must not take it out to-morrow to see if it has taken root," said Molly; "no one ever should do that.
Who acts: you, Molly, one · What happens: not take out, see, take, say, do · To what, where: earth, it, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Molly, one), 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 | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 take | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 take | advmod |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 take | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 morrow | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | advcl |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 taken | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 see | ccomp |
| 18 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 do | nsubj |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 one | advmod |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 do | aux |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | conj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 do | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take out in a quote | must | you | earth | now | to morrow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect · passive | it | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme root=Destination | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Molly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | should | no one | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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