Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 52
"'You are talking too much,' said the tinder-box, and the steel struck against the flint till some sparks flew out, crying, 'We want a merry evening, don't we?'
Who acts: You, steel, sparks, We · What happens: talk, say, strike, fly out, cry, want · To what, where: much, tinder box, flint, we · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, steel, sparks, We), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 talking | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 talking | aux |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 talking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 box | det |
| 12 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 box | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tinder | punct |
| 14 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 struck | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 struck | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 steel | det |
| 18 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struck | nsubj |
| 19 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 flint | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flint | det |
| 22 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struck | obl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 flew | mark |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 sparks | det |
| 25 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flew | nsubj |
| 26 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 struck | advcl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 flew | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 crying | punct |
| 29 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 flew | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 want | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 want | punct |
| 32 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 want | nsubj |
| 33 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 crying | ccomp |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 evening | det |
| 35 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 evening | amod |
| 36 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 want | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 want | punct |
| 38 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 flew | conj |
| 39 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 do | advmod |
| 40 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 do | obj |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 struck | punct |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | present · progressive | You | much | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask in a quote | past | the tinder box | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | strike in a quote | past | the steel | the flint | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against flint=Location | ||||
| 4 | fly out in a quote | past | some sparks | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express in a quote | gerund | some sparks not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | want in a quote | present | We | evening | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 7 | not do in a quote | infinitive | some sparks not said here | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality |
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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