Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 20
"But I will not bend my head," said the buckwheat.
Who acts: buckwheat · What happens: not bend, say · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (buckwheat), 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 bend | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 bend | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bend | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bend | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bend | advmod |
| 6 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bend | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bend | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bend | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 buckwheat | det |
| 13 | buckwheat | buckwheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bend in a quote | future | the buckwheat = buckwheat | my head | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the buckwheat | 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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