Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 122
I advise you, therefore, to lay eggs, and learn to purr as quickly as possible."
Who acts: I · What happens: advise, lay, learn, purr · To what, where: you, eggs
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 advise | nsubj |
| 2 | advise | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 advise | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 advise | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 lay | mark |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 advise | parataxis |
| 9 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 learn | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 learn | cc |
| 12 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 lay | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 purr | mark |
| 14 | purr | purr | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 learn | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 quickly | advmod |
| 16 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 14 purr | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 possible | mark |
| 18 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 quickly | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 advise | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 advise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | present | I | you | therefore property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | lay | to-infinitive | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | |||||
| 3 | learn | infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | purr | to-infinitive | quickly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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