Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 109

"Skins, skins!" they cried, mocking him; "yes, we'll mark your skin for you, till it is black and blue."

Who acts: Skins, we, answer · What happens: cry, mock, mark, be · To what, where: bushel, skin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Skins, we, answer), 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	_	2 Skins	punct
2	Skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 skins	punct
4	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Skins	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Skins	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Skins	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mocking	punct
10	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cried	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mocking	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 mark	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 mark	punct
14	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	18 mark	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 yes	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 mark	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 mark	aux
18	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 skin	nmod:poss
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mark	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 mark	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 black	punct
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 black	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 black	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 black	cop
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cried	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 blue	cc
29	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 black	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 black	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Skins and skins			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mock	gerund	Skins and skins not said here	bushel		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	mark in a quote	future	we	your skin	for you	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent skin=Destination
4	is in a quote	present	answer		black property	tree rules
5	be in a quote		answer not said here			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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