Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 126
Let the thing sit there and enjoy its life."
Who acts: you, thing · What happens: let, sit, enjoy · To what, where: thing, life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thing), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sit | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 enjoy | cc |
| 7 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sit | conj |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enjoy | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | the thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | infinitive | the thing not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | infinitive | the thing not said here | two's life | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=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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