Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 128
I will give my seal to the flower," said the snail, "I have trailed my slime upon it, I can do no more.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, say, trail, do · To what, where: seal, snail, slime, more · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 seal | nmod:poss |
| 5 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 flower | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flower | det |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 snail | det |
| 13 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 trailed | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 trailed | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 trailed | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 trailed | aux |
| 18 | trailed | trail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 slime | nmod:poss |
| 20 | slime | slime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trailed | obj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 trailed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 more | det |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 do | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | my seal | to the flower | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the snail | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent snail=Topic | |||||
| 3 | trail | present · perfect | I | my slime | upon snail | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent slime=Theme upon it=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | do | can | I | no more | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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