Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 44
I spoke to her in a kind and friendly manner, and begged her to take courage.
Who acts: I · What happens: speak, beg, take · To what, where: dryad, kind, courage · 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 kind | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kind | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 manner | cc |
| 9 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 manner | amod |
| 10 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 begged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 begged | cc |
| 13 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 begged | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 begged | xcomp |
| 17 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | I | dryad | a kind and friendly manner | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | I not said here | dryad | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=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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