Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 214
"Why not join in the jesting cry That contemns all gifts from the throne on high?"
Who acts: you, jesting cry · What happens: not join, contemn · To what, where: gifts, jesting cry
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 (you, jesting cry), 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 join | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 join | advmod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 join | advmod |
| 4 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cry | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cry | det |
| 7 | jesting | jesting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cry | compound |
| 8 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 join | obl |
| 9 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 contemns | nsubj |
| 10 | contemns | contemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cry | acl:relcl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 gifts | det |
| 12 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 join | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 throne | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 throne | det |
| 15 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 join | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 high | case |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 join | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 join | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 join | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not join in a quote | imperative | you not said here | all gifts | the jesting cry | from the throne; on high | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient | ||
| 2 | contemn in a quote | present | the jesting cry | the jesting cry not said here | tree rules |
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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