Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 37
Keep your eyes wide open, and move softly, and if you come to a hole jump over it, and cling fast as I do."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: keep, move, come, cling, do · To what, where: eyes, hole jump
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 (you, I), 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obj |
| 4 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 open | advmod |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 move | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 move | cc |
| 8 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 9 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 8 move | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 jump | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 jump | det |
| 17 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 jump | compound |
| 18 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 jump | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cling | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cling | cc |
| 23 | cling | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | parataxis |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 cling | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 cling | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | your eyes | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | move | infinitive | you not said here | softly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a hole jump over jump | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jump=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | cling | present | fast property | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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