Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 46
Oh! he is a bad boy, this Cupid, and you must never have anything to do with him, for he is after every one.
Who acts: boy, you · What happens: be, not have, do · To what, where: bad boy, anything
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, you), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 boy | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 boy | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 boy | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boy | amod |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Cupid | punct |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 Cupid | det |
| 10 | Cupid | Cupid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 have | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 boy | parataxis |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 anything | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 one | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 one | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 one | cop |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | boy | a bad boy | this Cupid nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not have | must | you | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | anything not said here | with boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is | present | boy | for every one | 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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