Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 25
"See, this is the way you should hold yourselves," said the copy. "
Who acts: this, you, copy · What happens: see, be, hold, say · To what, where: way, yourselves · 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 (this, you, copy), 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 | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 way | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 See | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 hold | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hold | aux |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 hold | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 copy | det |
| 16 | copy | copy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold in a quote | should | you | yourselves | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the copy | 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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