Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 31
Now just you try my spectacles on, and put my ear-trumpet to your ear, and then pray to God, and leave off thinking of yourself."
Who acts: you · What happens: try, put, pray, leave off, think · To what, where: spectacles, ear trumpet, God
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 try | advmod |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 try | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 try | nsubj |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 try | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 try | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 trumpet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trumpet | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ear | punct |
| 14 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ear | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ear | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pray | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pray | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 pray | advmod |
| 21 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 God | case |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 pray | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 leave | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 leave | cc |
| 26 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | conj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 leave | compound:prt |
| 28 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 leave | advcl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 yourself | case |
| 30 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 thinking | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | you | my spectacles | now | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | you not said here | my ear trumpet | to your ear | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent trumpet=Goal | |||
| 3 | pray | infinitive | you not said here | God | then | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 4 | leave off | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | you not said here | of yourself | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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