Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 103
No." "Then you have no right to express an opinion when sensible people are speaking."
Who acts: you, sensible people · What happens: have, express, speak · To what, where: No., opinion · 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, sensible people), 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 | 6 have | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 No. | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 No. | punct |
| 4 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 have | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 right | det |
| 8 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 express | mark |
| 10 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 right | acl |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 opinion | det |
| 12 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 express | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 speaking | advmod |
| 14 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 speaking | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 speaking | aux |
| 17 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 express | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | No. | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | |||
| 2 | express | to-infinitive | you not said here | a opinion | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present · progressive | sensible people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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