Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 89
"You must never go in there," said the yard-dog, "for if you approach the stove, you'll melt away, away."
Who acts: You, yard dog · What happens: not go in, say, approach, melt away · To what, where: stove · 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 | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | 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 | 14 dog | det |
| 12 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dog | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 yard | punct |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 melt | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 melt | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 approach | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 approach | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 approach | nsubj |
| 20 | approach | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 melt | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stove | det |
| 22 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 approach | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 approach | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 melt | nsubj |
| 25 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 melt | aux |
| 26 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 melt | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 away | punct |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 melt | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 melt | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 melt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in in a quote | must | You | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the yard dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | approach a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | the stove | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stove=Theme | ||||
| 4 | melt away in a quote | future | you | away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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