Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 16
"You certainly know how to speak for yourself very well," said the ball; "but I cannot accept your proposal.
Who acts: You, ball, your · What happens: know, speak, say, not accept, propose · To what, where: proposal · 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 (You, ball, your), 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 | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 speak | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 speak | mark |
| 7 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 yourself | case |
| 9 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 speak | obl |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 well | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 speak | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ball | det |
| 16 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 accept | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 accept | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 accept | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 accept | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 accept | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 accept | advmod |
| 23 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 25 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 accept | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | You | certainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | for yourself; well property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the ball | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not accept in a quote | can | the ball = ball | your proposal | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | propose in a quote | your | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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