Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 23
"You know nothing at all," replied the yard-dog; "but then, you've only lately been patched up.
Who acts: You, yard dog · What happens: know, reply, patch up · To what, where: nothing, all, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, yard dog), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 11 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dog | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 yard | punct |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 patched | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 but | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 patched | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 patched | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 patched | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 patched | nsubj |
| 20 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 patched | aux |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 patched | advmod |
| 22 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 24 patched | advmod |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 patched | aux:pass |
| 24 | patched | patch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 replied | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 patched | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | You | nothing | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the yard dog | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | patch up in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | then | lately property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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