Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 102

Can you raise your back, or purr, or throw out sparks?" said the tom cat. "

Who acts: you, tom cat · What happens: raise, throw out, say · To what, where: back, sparks · Speech: someone speaks here

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, tom cat), 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	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 raise	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 raise	nsubj
3	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raise	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 purr	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 purr	cc
8	purr	purr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raise	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 throw	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 throw	cc
11	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 raise	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 throw	compound:prt
13	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 throw	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 raise	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 raise	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 raise	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cat	det
18	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cat	compound
19	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 raise	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 raise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	raise	can	you	your back	purr obl	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme
2	throw out	infinitive	you not said here	sparks		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the tom cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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