Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 52
But you must stand before me, so that nobody can see it."
Who acts: you, nobody · What happens: stand, see · To what, where: pot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, nobody), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 stand | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stand | aux |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stand | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 see | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stand | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | must | you | before me | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before i=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | can | nobody | pot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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