Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 6
"You are not to be discouraged by difficulties, I see," said the miller.
Who acts: difficulties, miller · What happens: not discourage, see, say · To what, where: You · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difficulties, miller), 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 discouraged | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 discouraged | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 discouraged | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 discouraged | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 discouraged | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 discouraged | aux:pass |
| 7 | discouraged | discourage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | ccomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 difficulties | case |
| 9 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 discouraged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 discouraged | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 discouraged | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 miller | det |
| 17 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not discourage in a quote | present · passive | difficulties | You | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | the miller = miller | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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