Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 99
Hallo, you shoemaker's boy, you need not be in such a hurry," cried the soldier to him. "
Who acts: you, Hallo · What happens: not be, cry · To what, where: hurry, soldier
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 (you, Hallo), 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 | Hallo | Hallo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hallo | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Hallo | appos |
| 4 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 shoemaker | case |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hallo | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hurry | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 hurry | nsubj |
| 9 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hurry | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 hurry | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hurry | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hurry | case |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 hurry | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hurry | det |
| 15 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hallo | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hurry | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 hurry | punct |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 soldier | det |
| 20 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | you | such hurry | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Hallo | the soldier | soldier | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic to he=Recipient |
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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