Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 19
But don't ask me any questions, for I shan't answer you."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not ask, not answer · To what, where: questions, me, you
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 ask | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ask | advmod |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | iobj |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 questions | det |
| 7 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ask | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 answer | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 answer | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 answer | nsubj |
| 11 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 answer | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 answer | advmod |
| 13 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 answer | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask | imperative · do-support | you not said here | any questions | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert | I | you | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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