Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 203
"No, now, don't be too fierce about it!" said Little Claus, as they walked on towards the river.
Who acts: Little Claus, birds · What happens: not be, say, walk · To what, where: river · 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 (Little Claus, birds), 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 | _ | 10 fierce | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 fierce | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 No | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 fierce | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 fierce | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fierce | cop |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 fierce | advmod |
| 10 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fierce | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 fierce | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fierce | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Claus | amod |
| 17 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 walked | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 walked | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 walked | nsubj |
| 21 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 river | case |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 25 river | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 river | det |
| 25 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | about thrashing; fierce property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Little Claus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | birds = bird | the river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on river=Trajectory |
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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