Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 7
"You think I shall keep him, do you not?" she said. "
Who acts: You, I, mother · What happens: think, keep, not do, say · To what, where: man, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, mother), 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | aux |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | You | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | shall | I | man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | present | You not said here | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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