Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 111
You dear old man, you are always thinking of something to please me.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, please · To what, where: dear old man, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 man | nsubj |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 thinking | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thinking | cop |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 thinking | advmod |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 man | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 something | case |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 thinking | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 please | mark |
| 13 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 something | acl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 please | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | dear old man not said here | of something; always, think property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | please | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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