Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 73
"Ah, but I never see any, and I don't know them," said the tin soldier, "and I cannot bear it."
Who acts: tin soldier · What happens: not see, not know, say, not bear · To what, where: any, thoughts, visit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tin soldier), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 know | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 soldier | det |
| 20 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 soldier | compound |
| 21 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bear | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 bear | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 bear | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 bear | advmod |
| 28 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bear | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 bear | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | present | the tin soldier = soldier | any | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the tin soldier = soldier | thoughts = thought | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the tin soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not bear in a quote | can | the tin soldier = soldier | visit | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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