Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 117
Don't imagine such nonsense, child, and thank your good fortune that you have been received here.
Who acts: you · What happens: not imagine, thank, receive · To what, where: such nonsense, good fortune, you
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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 imagine | advmod |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nonsense | amod |
| 5 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 imagine | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 child | punct |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nonsense | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thank | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thank | cc |
| 10 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fortune | amod |
| 13 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thank | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 received | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 received | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 received | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 received | aux:pass |
| 18 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 thank | advcl |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 received | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | imperative · do-support | you not said here | such nonsense and child | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nonsense=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | present | you not said here | your good fortune | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 3 | receive | present · perfect · passive | you | here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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