Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 20
"You are getting too strong for me," he said; "but I will not use my claws against you.
Who acts: You, Rudy · What happens: get, say, not use · To what, where: claws · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Rudy), 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 | _ | 4 getting | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 getting | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 getting | aux |
| 4 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 strong | advmod |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 getting | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 strong | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 getting | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 getting | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 use | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 but | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 use | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 use | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 use | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 use | advmod |
| 19 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 claws | nmod:poss |
| 21 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 use | obj |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 use | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · progressive | You | strong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rudy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not use in a quote | future | Rudy | my claws | against you | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/20/