Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 73
"I don't like to see you fret," said the little robber-girl; "you ought to look quite happy now; and here are two loaves and a ham, so that you need not starve."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not like, see, fret, say, look, be · To what, where: two loaves · 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 (I, 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 | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 like | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 fret | nsubj |
| 9 | fret | fret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 15 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 girl | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 robber | punct |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 look | nsubj |
| 21 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 look | aux |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 happy | advmod |
| 25 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 look | xcomp |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 look | advmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 loaves | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 here | cc |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 loaves | advmod |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 loaves | cop |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 loaves | nummod |
| 32 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 ham | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 ham | det |
| 35 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 loaves | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 starve | punct |
| 37 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 42 starve | mark |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 so | fixed |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 starve | nsubj |
| 40 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 starve | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 starve | advmod |
| 42 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | parataxis |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 starve | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 starve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fret in a quote | present | you | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | look in a quote | ought | you | now | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | two loaves and a ham | here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not starve in a quote | present | you | 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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