Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 131
I keep them in order with my beak, and fling my wit about me.
Who acts: I · What happens: keep, fling · To what, where: notes, order, wit
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. 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 | 2 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 keep | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 order | case |
| 5 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keep | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 beak | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beak | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keep | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fling | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fling | cc |
| 11 | fling | fling | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 keep | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wit | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fling | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fling | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | I | notes = note | order | with my beak | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in order=Location | ||
| 2 | fling | infinitive | I not said here | my wit | about me | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent wit=Theme about i=Destination |
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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