Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 26
Look here, you should slope thus, with a graceful curve."
Who acts: you · What happens: look, slope
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), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Look | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 slope | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 slope | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 slope | aux |
| 6 | slope | slope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 slope | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 curve | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 curve | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 curve | det |
| 11 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 curve | amod |
| 12 | curve | curve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slope | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | slope | should | you | thus property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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