Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 15
"May I never be whipped again," said the top, "if I am not telling you the truth."
Who acts: top · What happens: not whip, say, not tell · To what, where: top, truth, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (top), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 whipped | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 whipped | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 whipped | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 whipped | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 whipped | aux:pass |
| 6 | whipped | whip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 whipped | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 whipped | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 whipped | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 telling | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 telling | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 telling | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 telling | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 telling | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 telling | advmod |
| 19 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 telling | iobj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 truth | det |
| 22 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 telling | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not whip in a quote | may · passive | the top = top | again | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the top | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · progressive | the top = top | the truth | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic |
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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