Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 149
"Heaven preserve us!" cried the apothecary, "you are out of your mind.
Who acts: Heaven, apothecary, you · What happens: preserve, cry, be · To what, where: us, mind · 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 (Heaven, apothecary, you), 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 | _ | 3 preserve | punct |
| 2 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 preserve | nsubj |
| 3 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 preserve | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 preserve | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 preserve | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 apothecary | det |
| 9 | apothecary | apothecary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mind | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 mind | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 mind | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 mind | cop |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 mind | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mind | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mind | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 apothecary | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve in a quote | infinitive | Heaven | us | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the apothecary | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | your mind | 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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