Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 19
But I do not understand chattering and boasting; on the contrary, I despise it."
Who acts: I · What happens: not understand, chatter, boast, despise · To what, where: business, contrary
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 understand | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 understand | advmod |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 understand | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 boasting | cc |
| 8 | boasting | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 chattering | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 despise | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 contrary | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 contrary | det |
| 12 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 despise | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 contrary | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 despise | nsubj |
| 15 | despise | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 despise | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | chatter | gerund | I not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | boast speech: other | gerund | I not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | despise | present | I | business | the contrary | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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