Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 105
"Will you be so good as to seat yourself in your mamma's thimble," said the little mouse, "that I may have the pleasure of drawing you to the wedding."
Who acts: you, little mouse, pleasure · What happens: be, say, have, draw · To what, where: pleasure, you, wedding · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little mouse, pleasure), 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 good | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 good | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 good | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | ccomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 seat | case |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 seat | mark |
| 9 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | obl |
| 10 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 seat | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 thimble | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mamma | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thimble | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 mamma | case |
| 15 | thimble | thimble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seat | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | 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 mouse | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mouse | amod |
| 21 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mouse | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 mouse | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 have | nsubj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 mouse | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 pleasure | det |
| 29 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 drawing | mark |
| 31 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 pleasure | acl |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 drawing | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 wedding | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wedding | det |
| 35 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drawing | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | you | as seat yourself in your mamma's thimble; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | may | the little mouse | the pleasure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient | ||||
| 4 | draw in a quote | gerund | the pleasure not said here | you | the wedding | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to wedding=Destination |
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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