Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 20
Then I would clench my fist, and cry, "We will kill these Turks!"
Who acts: I, We · What happens: clench, cry, kill · To what, where: fist, Turks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 clench | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 clench | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 clench | aux |
| 4 | clench | clench | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fist | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clench | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cry | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cry | cc |
| 9 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 clench | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 12 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 kill | aux |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cry | conj |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 Turks | det |
| 16 | Turks | turk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kill | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 clench | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 clench | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clench | would | I | my fist | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fist=Patient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | infinitive | I not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | future | We | this Turks | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turk=Theme |
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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