Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 19
He will strike you down before you can cry for mercy."
Who acts: angel, you · What happens: strike down, cry · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 strike | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 strike | aux |
| 3 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 strike | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 strike | compound:prt |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 cry | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 cry | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cry | aux |
| 9 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 strike | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 mercy | case |
| 11 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cry | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strike | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 strike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike down | future | angel | you | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | can | you | for mercy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mercy=Recipient |
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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