Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 95
Don't stand there, looking so stupid."
Who acts: you · What happens: not stand, look
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 stand | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 stand | advmod |
| 3 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stand | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stand | advcl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 stupid | advmod |
| 8 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looking | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand | imperative · do-support | you not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | you not said here | stupid property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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