Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 30
"Don't go too near the fire," said the prince, "or your hands and face will be frost-bitten."
Who acts: you, prince · What happens: not go, say, bite · To what, where: fire, hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 hands | cc |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 face | cc |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hands | conj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 bitten | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 bitten | aux:pass |
| 23 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bitten | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 frost | punct |
| 25 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 go | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the fire | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bite in a quote | future · passive | your hands and face | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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