Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 27

You need not be in a hurry; you are always so impatient, and the youngster is getting just the same.

Who acts: You, youngster · What happens: not need, be, get · To what, where: hurry

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, youngster), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 need	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 hurry	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hurry	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hurry	det
7	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 impatient	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 impatient	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 impatient	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 impatient	advmod
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 impatient	advmod
13	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 need	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 getting	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 getting	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 youngster	det
17	youngster	youngster	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 getting	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 getting	aux
19	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 impatient	advcl
20	just	just	ADV	_	22 same	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 same	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 getting	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not need	present	You			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	infinitive		a hurry		tree rules
3	is	present	you		always, impatient property	tree rules
4	get	present · progressive	the youngster		same property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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