Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 39

Quack, quack! come with me now, I will take you into grand society, and introduce you to the farmyard, but you must keep close to me or you may be trodden upon; and, above all, beware of the cat."

Who acts: Quack, I, you · What happens: come, take, introduce, keep, tread, beware · To what, where: you, grand society, all

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 (Quack, I, 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	Quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 quack	punct
3	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Quack	conj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 come	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 take	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 society	case
15	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 society	amod
16	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 introduce	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 introduce	cc
19	introduce	introduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 introduce	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 farmyard	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 farmyard	det
23	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 introduce	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 keep	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 keep	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 keep	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 keep	aux
28	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	parataxis
29	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 keep	xcomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 close	obl
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 trodden	cc
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 trodden	nsubj
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 trodden	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 trodden	aux:pass
36	trodden	tread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 keep	conj
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 trodden	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 beware	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 beware	cc
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 and	punct
41	above	above	ADP	_	42 all	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 beware	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 all	punct
44	beware	beware	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 come	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 cat	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 cat	det
47	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 beware	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	Quack and quack			now	with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	future	I	you	grand society			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into society=Destination
3	introduce	infinitive	Quack and quack not said here	you			to the farmyard	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient to farmyard=Co-Patient
4	keep	must	you				close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	tread	may · passive		you				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	beware	infinitive	Quack and quack not said here		all		of the cat	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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