Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 186
"You may have too much of a good thing," said Ole-Luk-Oie. "
Who acts: You, Ole · What happens: have, say · To what, where: much · 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, Ole), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thing | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thing | amod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 much | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Luk | punct |
| 16 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ole | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Oie | punct |
| 18 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ole | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | may | You | much of a good thing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ole and Luk and Oie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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