Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 94
I don't care for the little green morsel; it would only tickle my throat."
Who acts: I, morsel · What happens: not care, tickle · To what, where: throat
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 (I, morsel), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 care | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 care | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 care | advmod |
| 4 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 morsel | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morsel | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 morsel | amod |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 morsel | amod |
| 9 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 care | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 tickle | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tickle | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tickle | aux |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 tickle | advmod |
| 14 | tickle | tickle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 care | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 throat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tickle | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 care | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | present · do-support | I | for the little green morsel | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for morsel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tickle | would | morsel | my throat | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Experiencer |
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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