Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 8
It is stupid nonsense to allow yourself to shoot out in this way; we are not here to support you."
Who acts: leaf, we · What happens: be, allow, shoot out, not be, support · To what, where: stupid nonsense, yourself, way, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nonsense | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nonsense | cop |
| 3 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nonsense | amod |
| 4 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 allow | mark |
| 6 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nonsense | acl |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 allow | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 shoot | mark |
| 9 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allow | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 shoot | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shoot | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 support | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 here | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 here | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 here | advmod |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 support | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 support | mark |
| 20 | support | support | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 nonsense | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 support | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 support | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 support | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | leaf | stupid nonsense | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | allow | to-infinitive | yourself | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer yourself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shoot out not said to happen | to-infinitive | this way | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in way=Destination | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | we | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | support | to-infinitive | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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