Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 6
"Don't flatter," said Rudy, with a laugh; but still he was pleased.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: not flatter, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 flatter | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 flatter | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 flatter | advmod |
| 4 | flatter | flatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flatter | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 flatter | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laugh | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 laugh | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 laugh | det |
| 12 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Rudy | appos |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 pleased | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 pleased | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 pleased | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pleased | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pleased | cop |
| 18 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not flatter in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rudy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Rudy | still | pleased property | tree rules |
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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