Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 202
"Thank you," said Great Claus; "but remember, if I do not get any sea-cattle down there I shall come up again and give you a good thrashing."
Who acts: Great, Little · What happens: thank, say, remember, not get, come up, give · To what, where: you, sea cattle, good thrashing · 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 (Great, Little), 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 Thank | punct |
| 2 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Thank | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Thank | conj |
| 7 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Great | flat |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 remember | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 remember | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 remember | cc |
| 12 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Thank | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 get | advmod |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 remember | ccomp |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 cattle | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cattle | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sea | punct |
| 22 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 get | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 there | advmod |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 come | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 come | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 come | aux |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 get | xcomp |
| 28 | up | up | ADV | _ | 27 come | advmod |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 come | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 give | cc |
| 31 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 come | conj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 give | iobj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 thrashing | det |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 thrashing | amod |
| 35 | thrashing | thrashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 give | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Great | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remember in a quote | infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | Little | any sea cattle | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come up in a quote | shall | Little | there | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | give in a quote | infinitive | Little not said here | a good thrashing | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thrashing=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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