Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 59

You should not attempt to reach her.'

Who acts: You · What happens: not attempt, not reach · To what, where: cat

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 attempt	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 attempt	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 attempt	advmod
4	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 reach	mark
6	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 attempt	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reach	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 attempt	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 attempt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not attempt	should	You						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not reach	to-infinitive	You not said here	cat					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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