Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 12

"There you are right," said the pen, "for you don't think at all; if you did, you would see that you can only provide the means.

Who acts: you, pen, the · What happens: be, say, not think, do, see, provide · To what, where: all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pen, the), 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	_	5 right	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 right	expl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 right	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 right	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 right	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pen	det
10	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 think	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 think	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 think	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 think	advmod
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 think	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 did	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 see	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 provide	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 provide	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 provide	aux
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 provide	advmod
32	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 see	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 means	nsubj
34	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 provide	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you	there	right property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the pen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	you	all		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see in a quote	would	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	provide in a quote	can	you			vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme
7	mean in a quote	present	the			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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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