Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 97
You shall not catch him; you shall not seize him!" they sang.
Who acts: You, Alps · What happens: not catch, not seize, sing · To what, where: Rudy · 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 (You, Alps), 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 | 4 catch | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 catch | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 catch | advmod |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 catch | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 seize | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 seize | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 seize | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 seize | advmod |
| 10 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sang | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seize | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 seize | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 seize | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sang | nsubj |
| 15 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 catch | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch | shall | You | Rudy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not seize | shall | you | Rudy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | Alps = alp | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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