Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 22
See, there goes a chip, thinking of nothing in the world but himself--only a chip.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, go, think · To what, where: chip
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 goes | expl |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chip | det |
| 6 | chip | chip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thinking | punct |
| 8 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 goes | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nothing | case |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 thinking | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | nmod |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 himself | cc |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 nothing | conj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 chip | punct |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 chip | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 chip | det |
| 19 | chip | chip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | go | present | you not said here | a chip | there | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chip=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | you not said here | of nothing | 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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