Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 22
Do not look at the lightning when the cloud bursts; even men cannot do that.
Who acts: you, cloud, men · What happens: not look, burst, not do · To what, where: that
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 (you, cloud, men), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 lightning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lightning | det |
| 6 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 bursts | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cloud | det |
| 9 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bursts | nsubj |
| 10 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 men | advmod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 do | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 do | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 look | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | imperative · do-support | you not said here | at the lightning | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lightning=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burst | present | the cloud | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not do | can | men | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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