Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 4
This Ass used to stretch out his neck towards the Thistle, and say, "You are beautiful; I should like to eat you!"
Who acts: Ass, You, I · What happens: use, stretch out, say, be, like, eat · To what, where: neck, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, You, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stretch | mark |
| 5 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 stretch | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stretch | obj |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 Thistle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Thistle | det |
| 11 | Thistle | Thistle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stretch | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 say | cc |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beautiful | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 beautiful | punct |
| 17 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 beautiful | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 beautiful | cop |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 say | ccomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 like | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 like | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 like | aux |
| 23 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 eat | mark |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 like | xcomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 eat | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | this Ass | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stretch out | to-infinitive | this Ass not said here | Ass's neck | towards the Thistle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient towards thistle=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: express | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | You | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | like in a quote | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | eat not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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