Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 76
"Don't cut off my head!" said Karen, "for then I could not repent of my sin.
Who acts: Karen · What happens: not cut off, say, not repent · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Karen), 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 cut | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cut | advmod |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 cut | compound:prt |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 repent | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 repent | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 then | case |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 repent | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 repent | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 repent | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 repent | advmod |
| 19 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sin | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sin | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 repent | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cut off in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Karen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not repent in a quote | could | Karen | of my sin | 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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