Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 45
Many will take more than they ought, but they don't call that drinking!
Who acts: Many, drops · What happens: take, not call · To what, where: more, drinking · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Many, drops), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 ought | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ought | nsubj |
| 7 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 more | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 call | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 call | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 call | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 call | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 call | advmod |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 drinking | det |
| 15 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 call | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | Many | more | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not call | present · do-support | drops = drop | that drinking | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent drinking=Recipient |
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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