Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 48
The woman took me home again with her, and looking at me very earnestly, she said, 'No, I will not try to deceive any one with thee again.
Who acts: woman, I · What happens: take, look, say, not try, deceive · To what, where: me, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 took | iobj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 said | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 looking | obl |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 earnestly | advmod |
| 15 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 11 looking | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 try | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 try | punct |
| 21 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 try | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 No | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 try | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 try | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 try | advmod |
| 26 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 deceive | mark |
| 28 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 try | xcomp |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 deceive | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 thee | case |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 deceive | obl |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 deceive | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the woman | me | again | with heart; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||
| 2 | look | gerund | woman not said here | at me; earnestly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not try | future | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | deceive not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | any one | again | with thee | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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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