Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 4
Her under-lip hung quite down on her breast, and she stopped and said, "Good evening, soldier; you have a very fine sword, and a large knapsack, and you are a real soldier; so you shall have as much money as ever you like."
Who acts: lip, you · What happens: hang, stop, say, have, be, like · To what, where: breast, fine sword, real soldier, much money · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lip, you), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lip | nmod:poss |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 lip | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 under | punct |
| 4 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hung | nsubj |
| 5 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 down | advmod |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 hung | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 breast | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 breast | nmod:poss |
| 10 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hung | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stopped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stopped | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stopped | nsubj |
| 14 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hung | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stopped | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 evening | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 evening | punct |
| 19 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 evening | amod |
| 20 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 soldier | punct |
| 22 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 evening | appos |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hung | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sword | det |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 fine | advmod |
| 28 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sword | amod |
| 29 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 knapsack | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 knapsack | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 knapsack | det |
| 33 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 knapsack | amod |
| 34 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 soldier | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 soldier | cc |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 soldier | nsubj |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 soldier | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 soldier | det |
| 40 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 soldier | amod |
| 41 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | parataxis |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 have | punct |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 have | advmod |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 have | nsubj |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 have | aux |
| 46 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hung | conj |
| 47 | as | as | ADV | _ | 48 much | advmod |
| 48 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 money | amod |
| 49 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 have | obj |
| 50 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 53 like | mark |
| 51 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 53 like | advmod |
| 52 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 53 like | nsubj |
| 53 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 have | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hung | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | Her lip | lip's breast | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on breast=Location | |||
| 2 | stop | past | lip | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | lip not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | you | a fine sword | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | you | a real soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | shall | you | much money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 7 | like in a quote | present | you | ever | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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