Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 81
Kill their writings and thus you will kill them.
Who acts: you, people · What happens: kill, write · To what, where: writings
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, 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 | Kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 writings | nmod:poss |
| 3 | writings | writing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kill | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kill | cc |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 kill | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 kill | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 kill | aux |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Kill | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kill | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | imperative | you not said here | people's writings | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | future | you | writings = writing | thus property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | write | people | nom writing «act transitive»: poss=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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