Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 13
"You are a daring fellow," said they; "but it is no use; you will break your neck."
Who acts: You, spirits, wedding · What happens: be, say, break · To what, where: daring fellow, use, neck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, spirits, wedding), 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 | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 fellow | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fellow | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fellow | det |
| 5 | daring | daring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fellow | amod |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ; | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 use | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 use | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 use | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 use | det |
| 17 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ; | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 break | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 break | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 break | aux |
| 21 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 neck | nmod:poss |
| 23 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 break | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 break | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a daring fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | spirits = spirit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | wedding | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | break in a quote | future | you | your neck | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=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.
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