Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 73
Go away from here to our old manor house; but you had better bite your tongue off than spread any lies among the people."
Who acts: you · What happens: go away, have, bite off, spread · To what, where: tongue, lies
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 here | case |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Go | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | amod |
| 8 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 here | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 had | xcomp |
| 15 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | xcomp |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bite | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 bite | compound:prt |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 spread | mark |
| 20 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bite | advcl |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 lies | det |
| 22 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spread | obj |
| 23 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spread | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bite off | infinitive | you not said here | your tongue | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | ||||
| 4 | spread | past | you not said here | any lies | among the people | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lie=Theme among people=Destination |
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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