Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 157
First, I killed all my horses, and then my old grandmother, and it is all your fault; but you shall not make a fool of me any more."
Who acts: I, trick, you · What happens: kill, be, not make · To what, where: horses, fault, fool
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 (I, trick, 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 killed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 First | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 horses | det:predet |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 killed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grandmother | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grandmother | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 grandmother | advmod |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grandmother | amod |
| 13 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fault | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fault | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fault | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fault | cop |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 fault | det:predet |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fault | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grandmother | parataxis |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 make | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 make | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 make | advmod |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 killed | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fool | det |
| 28 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 fool | nmod |
| 31 | any | any | ADV | _ | 32 more | advmod |
| 32 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 make | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | I | my horses | first property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | trick | your fault | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not make | shall | you | a fool of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Product |
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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