Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 30
Drink a little, my boy; you look quite pale; you are shivering in your thin clothes, and autumn has really come.
Who acts: you, autumn · What happens: drink, look, shiver, come · To what, where: little, thin clothes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, autumn), 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 | Drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Drink | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 boy | nmod:poss |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drink | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 look | nsubj |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Drink | parataxis |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 pale | advmod |
| 11 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 look | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 shivering | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 shivering | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 shivering | aux |
| 15 | shivering | shiver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 look | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 clothes | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 clothes | amod |
| 19 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 shivering | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 come | cc |
| 22 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 24 | really | really | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 look | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | imperative | you not said here | a little | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | present | you | pale property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shiver | present · progressive | you | your thin clothes | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | come | present | autumn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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