Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 131
Don't you know any story about bacon, or tallow in the storeroom."
Who acts: you · What happens: do, not know · To what, where: story
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. 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 know | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | advcl |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 bacon | case |
| 8 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tallow | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 tallow | cc |
| 11 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | appos |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 storeroom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 storeroom | det |
| 14 | storeroom | storeroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tallow | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 16 | " | " | 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 know | present | you | any story | about bacon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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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