Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 29
Do not stay gossiping, but come back here as quickly as you can."
Who acts: you · What happens: not stay, gossip, come back
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 stay | advmod |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gossiping | gossip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stay | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 come | cc |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 come | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 quickly | advmod |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 can | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 can | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 quickly | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | imperative · do-support | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gossip speech: other | gerund | you not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come back | infinitive | you not said here | here | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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