Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 75
"We have driven well," said she, "but why do you tremble? here, creep into my warm fur."
Who acts: We, queen, you · What happens: drive, say, tremble, creep · To what, where: warm fur · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, queen, 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 | _ | 4 driven | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 driven | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 driven | aux |
| 4 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 driven | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 driven | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 driven | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 tremble | cc |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 tremble | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tremble | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tremble | nsubj |
| 16 | tremble | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 tremble | punct |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 tremble | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 creep | punct |
| 20 | creep | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tremble | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 fur | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fur | nmod:poss |
| 23 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fur | amod |
| 24 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 creep | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tremble | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tremble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive in a quote | present · perfect | We | well property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tremble in a quote | present · do-support | you | here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | creep in a quote | present | you not said here | my warm fur | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into fur=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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