Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 24
Don't be thinking too much of yourself, or you may chance to run against a stone.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, not think, chance, run · To what, where: much, stone
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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 thinking | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thinking | aux |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Do | advcl |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thinking | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 yourself | case |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 much | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chance | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 chance | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 chance | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 chance | aux |
| 13 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 run | mark |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 chance | acl |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 stone | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stone | det |
| 18 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | infinitive · progressive | you not said here | much of yourself | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chance | may | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | run | to-infinitive | you not said here | a stone | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against stone=Trajectory |
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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