Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 17
The dog who sits on this chest is very dreadful; his eyes are as big as a tower, but do not mind him.
Who acts: dog, eyes · What happens: sit, be, not mind · To what, where: chest, dog
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, eyes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dreadful | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sits | nsubj |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dog | acl:relcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 chest | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 chest | det |
| 7 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dreadful | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 dreadful | advmod |
| 10 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 big | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 big | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 big | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 big | advmod |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dreadful | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 tower | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tower | det |
| 19 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 big | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mind | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 mind | cc |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 mind | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 mind | advmod |
| 24 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 dreadful | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 mind | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dreadful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the dog | this chest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chest=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the dog | dreadful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | dog's eyes | as a tower; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not mind | infinitive · do-support | dog | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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