Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 70
"'You will break your neck, I hope,' said the miller, 'and we shall be relieved from your company.'
Who acts: You, I, we · What happens: break, hope, say, be · To what, where: neck, miller, company · 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 (You, I, we), 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 | _ | 5 break | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 break | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 break | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 break | aux |
| 5 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 neck | nmod:poss |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hope | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hope | nsubj |
| 10 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 break | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hope | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 break | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 miller | det |
| 15 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 relieved | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 relieved | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 relieved | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 relieved | cop |
| 22 | relieved | relieved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 company | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 company | nmod:poss |
| 25 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 relieved | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 relieved | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 relieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | future | You | your neck | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hope in a quote | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the miller | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | shall | we | your company | relieved 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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