Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 203
I know thou hast accomplished nothing, not even made a single brick.
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: know, have, accomplish, not make · To what, where: nothing, single brick · Speech: someone speaks here
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, thou), 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 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 hast | nsubj |
| 4 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 5 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 nothing | amod |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 hast | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 made | advmod |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 made | advmod |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 brick | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brick | amod |
| 13 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | thou | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | accomplish | participle | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not make | past | a single brick | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brick=Product |
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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