Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 101
No." "Then have the goodness to hold your tongue." "
Who acts: you · What happens: have, hold · To what, where: No., tongue
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 No. | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 4 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 goodness | det |
| 7 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hold | mark |
| 9 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 goodness | acl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | No. | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | you not said here | your tongue | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=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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