Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 30

"You must not scold him," said the mother-snail; "he creeps so very carefully.

Who acts: You, mother snail, youngster · What happens: not scold, say, creep · To what, where: youngster · Speech: someone speaks here

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, mother snail, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 scold	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 scold	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 scold	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 scold	advmod
5	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scold	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scold	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 scold	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 snail	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snail	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 mother	punct
13	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 creeps	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 creeps	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 creeps	nsubj
17	creeps	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 creeps	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 carefully	advmod
20	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	17 creeps	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not scold in a quote	must	You	youngster		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother snail			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	creep in a quote	present	youngster		carefully property	vn run-51.3.2 «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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