Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 151

"Ah, yes; and break your neck," said the miller; "and you look like one who will break his neck some day, you are so daring."

Who acts: you, miller, one · What happens: break, say, look, dare · To what, where: neck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, miller, one), 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	_	7 break	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 break	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 break	discourse
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 break	cc
7	break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 neck	nmod:poss
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 break	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 break	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 break	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 break	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 miller	det
14	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 break	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 break	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 look	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 look	nsubj
19	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 break	conj
20	like	like	SCONJ	_	24 break	mark
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 break	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 break	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 break	aux
24	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 look	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 neck	nmod:poss
26	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 break	obj
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 break	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 daring	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 daring	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 daring	aux
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 daring	advmod
33	daring	dare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 break	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 break	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 break	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	break in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your neck		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the miller			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look in a quote	present	you			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	break in a quote	future	one	man's neck	day	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient
5	dare in a quote	present · progressive	you			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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