Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 68
"Here are your fur boots for you," said she; "for it will be very cold; but I must keep the muff; it is so pretty.
Who acts: fur, reindeer, mother · What happens: be, boot, say, keep · To what, where: muff · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fur, reindeer, mother), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 boots | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fur | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boots | nsubj |
| 6 | boots | boot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 you | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 you | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boots | parataxis |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 cold | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 cold | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 cold | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cold | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 cold | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 cold | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 cold | advmod |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boots | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 keep | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 keep | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 keep | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 keep | aux |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 boots | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 muff | det |
| 27 | muff | muff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 keep | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 pretty | punct |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 pretty | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 pretty | cop |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 pretty | advmod |
| 32 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 6 boots | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 boots | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | boot in a quote | present | your fur | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | fur | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | reindeer | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | must | mother | the muff | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muff=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | reindeer | pretty property | 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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