Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 15
"Don't come so near me," said the garter; "I am not accustomed to it."
Who acts: garter · What happens: not come, say, not accustom · To what, where: garter, boaster · 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), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | 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 | 12 garter | det |
| 12 | garter | garter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 accustomed | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 accustomed | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 accustomed | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 accustomed | advmod |
| 18 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 accustomed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the garter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not accustom in a quote | present · passive | the garter = garter | boaster | tree rules |
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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