Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 83
It hides half the world from me, but I don't care for the world."
Who acts: world, I · What happens: hide, not care · To what, where: world
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 (world, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hides | nsubj |
| 2 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 world | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hides | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hides | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 care | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 care | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 care | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 care | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 care | advmod |
| 13 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hides | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 care | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hides | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | world | half world | from me | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent world=Patient from i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | not care | present · do-support | I | for the world | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for world=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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