Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 46
I spit at it; it's good for nothing, and does not concern me.
Who acts: I, world · What happens: spit, be, do · To what, where: world, concern, me
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 (I, world), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 spit | nsubj |
| 2 | spit | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spit | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 good | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 good | cop |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spit | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 nothing | case |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 good | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 does | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 does | cc |
| 13 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spit | advcl |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 concern | advmod |
| 15 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 does | obj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 does | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spit | present | I | world | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | world | for nothing; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present | I not said here | concern | me | 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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