Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 9
Beware of bad people who will catch you, and skin you, and put you in the frying-pan!" he repeated in his mind, and smiled, for he thought he should find his way through the world--good courage is a strong weapon!
Who acts: you, bad people, sea, good courage · What happens: beware, catch, put, repeat, smile, think · To what, where: you, frying pan, mind, way, world, strong weapon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bad people, sea, good courage), 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 | Beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 people | case |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Beware | obl |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 catch | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 catch | aux |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 catch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 skin | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 skin | cc |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Beware | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Beware | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Beware | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pan | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pan | det |
| 19 | frying | frying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pan | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 frying | punct |
| 21 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beware | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beware | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 repeated | nsubj |
| 25 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Beware | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 mind | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mind | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 repeated | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 smiled | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 smiled | cc |
| 31 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 repeated | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 thought | punct |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 thought | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 thought | nsubj |
| 35 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 smiled | conj |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 find | nsubj |
| 37 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 find | aux |
| 38 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 thought | ccomp |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 way | nmod:poss |
| 40 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 find | obj |
| 41 | through | through | ADP | _ | 43 world | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 world | det |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 find | obl |
| 44 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 50 weapon | punct |
| 45 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 courage | amod |
| 46 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 weapon | nsubj |
| 47 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 weapon | cop |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 weapon | det |
| 49 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 weapon | amod |
| 50 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 world | appos |
| 51 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware | imperative | you not said here | you | of bad people | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | future | bad people | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | you not said here | you | the frying pan | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme in pan=Destination | |||
| 4 | repeat in a quote | past | sea | sea's mind | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | smile in a quote | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | past | sea | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | find in a quote | should | sea | sea's way | the world | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | good courage | a strong weapon | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | mind in a quote | sea | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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