Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 20
"I won't go into the dark cupboard," said the little shepherdess. "
Who acts: little shepherdess · What happens: not go, say · To what, where: dark cupboard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little shepherdess), 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 | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 cupboard | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cupboard | det |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cupboard | amod |
| 9 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shepherdess | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shepherdess | amod |
| 15 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | future | the little shepherdess = shepherdess | the dark cupboard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cupboard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little shepherdess | 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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