Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 150
Don't say such things, or you will lose your head."
Who acts: you · What happens: not say, lose · To what, where: such things, head · 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 (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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 say | advmod |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lose | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 lose | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 lose | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 lose | aux |
| 10 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lose | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | imperative · do-support | you not said here | such things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lose | future | you | your head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |
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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