Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 12

"Now I must beg you not to say that again," said Big Claus; "for if you do, I shall hit your horse on the head, so that he will drop dead on the spot, and there will be an end of him."

Who acts: Big, you, end · What happens: beg, not say, say, do, hit, drop · To what, where: you, that, horse, dead, spot · 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 (Big, you, end), 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 beg	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 beg	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 beg	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 beg	aux
5	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 beg	obj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 say	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 beg	xcomp
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 say	obj
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beg	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 beg	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Big	flat
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 hit	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 hit	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 do	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 do	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
22	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hit	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 hit	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hit	aux
26	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	parataxis
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 horse	nmod:poss
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hit	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 head	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 head	det
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hit	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 drop	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 drop	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 drop	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 drop	aux
37	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hit	conj
38	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 drop	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 spot	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 spot	det
41	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drop	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 be	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 be	cc
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	46 be	expl
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 be	aux
46	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hit	conj
47	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 end	det
48	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 be	nsubj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 end	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 hit	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request in a quote	must	Big		you		now		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Big not said here	that			again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	Big						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hit in a quote	shall	Big	your horse				on the head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument on head=Patient
6	drop in a quote	future	Big	dead		the spot			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme on spot=Destination
7	be in a quote	future	a end of Big			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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