Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 12

"Get away; don't come so near me," said the garter, "you appear to me quite like a man."

Who acts: garter, you · What happens: get away, not come, say, appear · To what, where: garter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garter, you), 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	_	2 Get	punct
2	Get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 Get	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Get	conj
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	near	near	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 garter	det
15	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 appear	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 appear	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 appear	nsubj
19	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 appear	obl
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 appear	advmod
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 man	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 appear	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	get away in a quote	infinitive			away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not come in a quote	infinitive · do-support			near the garter = garter	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near i=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the garter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	appear in a quote	present	you	the garter = garter	like a man	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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