Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 77
"You have become proud since your fall broke you to pieces," said Major-general-field-sergeant-commander Billy-goat's-legs. "
Who acts: You, fall · What happens: become, break, say · To what, where: you · 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 (You, fall), 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 | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 become | xcomp |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 9 broke | mark |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fall | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | nsubj |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 broke | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 pieces | case |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 broke | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 broke | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 broke | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 general | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Major | punct |
| 18 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 commander | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 general | punct |
| 20 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 commander | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 field | punct |
| 22 | sergeant | sergeant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 commander | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 commander | punct |
| 24 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 25 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 commander | appos |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Billy | punct |
| 27 | goat's | goat's | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 legs | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 goat's | punct |
| 29 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 commander | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become in a quote | present · perfect | You | proud property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break in a quote | past | your fall | you | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient to piece=Result | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | 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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