Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 17
Go to the ant and learn wisdom,' said the great Jewish king.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, learn, say · To what, where: ant, wisdom, great Jewish king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 ant | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ant | det |
| 4 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 learn | cc |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 7 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learn | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 king | amod |
| 13 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 king | amod |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the ant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ant=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | learn | infinitive | you not said here | wisdom | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the great Jewish king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic |
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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