Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 38
"You'll break!" they said, "and fade, and fade!
Who acts: You, flakes · What happens: break, say, fade · 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 (You, flakes), 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 | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 break | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 break | aux |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 break | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fade | cc |
| 12 | fade | fade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 break | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fade | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fade | cc |
| 15 | fade | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 break | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | future | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | flakes = flake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fade in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | fade in a quote | present | You not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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