Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 208
"Put in a stone," said Great Claus, "or I may not sink."
Who acts: Great · What happens: put, say, not sink · To what, where: stone · 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), 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 Put | punct |
| 2 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 stone | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Great | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 sink | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 sink | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sink | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 sink | advmod |
| 17 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sink | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | infinitive | a stone | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stone=Destination | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Great | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not sink in a quote | may | Great | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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