Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 112
I mean to keep clear of all these things, and criticize what you do.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: mean, keep, criticize, do
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 keep | mark |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 mean | xcomp |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 things | det:predet |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 things | det |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clear | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 criticize | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 criticize | cc |
| 12 | criticize | criticize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 keep | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 do | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 criticize | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | clear property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | criticize | infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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