Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 34
I can't eat such stuff as that.
Who acts: I · What happens: not eat · To what, where: such stuff
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 eat | advmod |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stuff | amod |
| 6 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 eat | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | can | I | such stuff | as that | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient |
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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