Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 111
But do as you like, I shall not imitate you.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: like, not imitate · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 imitate | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 imitate | aux |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 like | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 do | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 imitate | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 imitate | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 imitate | advmod |
| 10 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 imitate | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 imitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | not imitate | shall · present · do-support | I | you | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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