Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 49
Then they all advised him not to attempt it; for he would be sure to share the same fate as the rest.
Who acts: notes, face · What happens: advise, not attempt, be, share · To what, where: face, visit, same fate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notes, face), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 advised | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 advised | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 advised | advmod |
| 4 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 advised | obj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 attempt | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 attempt | mark |
| 8 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 advised | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 attempt | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 sure | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 advised | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 share | mark |
| 17 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fate | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fate | amod |
| 20 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 share | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 rest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rest | det |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 share | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | notes = note | face | then | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | not attempt not said to happen | to-infinitive | visit | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | would | face | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | share | to-infinitive | face not said here | the same fate | as the rest | tree rules |
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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