Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 95
Don't stand there like a ridiculous oaf, for I must go back again directly to my bung and my cask."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not stand, go back
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 stand | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 stand | advmod |
| 3 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stand | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 oaf | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 oaf | det |
| 7 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 oaf | amod |
| 8 | oaf | oaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stand | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 16 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 19 bung | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bung | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bung | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bung | bung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cask | cc |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cask | nmod:poss |
| 22 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bung | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand | imperative · do-support | you not said here | there | like a ridiculous oaf | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go back | must | I | again | to my bung and my cask result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bung=Result |
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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