Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 14
"They shall not kill you as long as you don't make us vexed with you.
Who acts: eyes, you, us · What happens: not kill, not make, not vex · To what, where: you, us
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, you, us), 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 kill | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 kill | advmod |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 kill | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 make | advmod |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 long | advcl |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 make | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 vexed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill in a quote | shall | eyes = eye | you | long property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | not make in a quote | present · do-support | you | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not vex in a quote | participle | us not said here | with you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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