Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 35

What people say about falling down is all nonsense," continued the cat; "you will not fall, unless you are afraid.

Who acts: people, nonsense, you · What happens: say, fall down, be, continue, not fall · To what, where: nonsense, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, nonsense, you), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 say	obj
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nonsense	parataxis
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 falling	mark
5	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 say	advcl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 falling	compound:prt
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nonsense	cop
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 nonsense	det
9	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 continued	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nonsense	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 nonsense	punct
12	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cat	det
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 continued	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fall	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 fall	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 fall	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fall	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 fall	advmod
20	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 continued	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 afraid	punct
22	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	25 afraid	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 afraid	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 afraid	cop
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fall	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	people	all nonsense		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	fall down	gerund	people not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present		all nonsense		tree rules
4	continue in a quote	past	all nonsense	the cat		tree rules
5	not fall	future	you			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you		afraid property	tree rules

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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