Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 36
"I have not the slightest intention of doing so," said the snail. "
Who acts: snail, slightest intention · What happens: have, do, say · To what, where: slightest intention · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snail, slightest intention), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 intention | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 intention | det |
| 6 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 intention | amod |
| 7 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 doing | mark |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 intention | acl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 doing | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snail | det |
| 15 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the snail = snail | the slightest intention | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | gerund | the slightest intention not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the snail | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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