Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 72
"As we have done no good," said the chimney-sweep, "we might as well have remained here, instead of taking so much trouble."
Who acts: we, chimney sweep · What happens: do, say, remain, take · To what, where: good, much trouble · 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 (we, chimney sweep), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 done | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 good | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 done | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sweep | det |
| 12 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sweep | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 chimney | punct |
| 14 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 remained | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 remained | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 remained | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 remained | aux |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 22 remained | cc |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 remained | aux |
| 22 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | conj |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 remained | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 taking | punct |
| 25 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 27 taking | mark |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 instead | fixed |
| 27 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 much | advmod |
| 29 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 trouble | amod |
| 30 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 taking | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect | we | no good | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the chimney sweep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remain in a quote | might · perfect | we | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | gerund | the chimney sweep not said here | much trouble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |
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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