Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 49
I will bore a hole through thee, that everyone may know that thou art a false and worthless thing; and yet, why should I do that?
Who acts: I, everyone · What happens: bore, know, do · To what, where: hole, thee, that
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 (I, everyone), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bore | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bore | aux |
| 3 | bore | bore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hole | det |
| 5 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bore | obj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 thee | case |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 bore | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 10 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 know | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bore | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 art | mark |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 art | nsubj |
| 15 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 17 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thing | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 worthless | cc |
| 19 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 false | conj |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 art | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 yet | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 yet | cc |
| 23 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 bore | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 25 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 do | advmod |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | aux |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bore | conj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bore | future | I | a hole | thee | yet | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hole=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | know | may | everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | do | should | I | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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