Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 66
Do you know I cannot endure the sight of a sexton.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: know, not endure, sight · To what, where: sight, sexton · 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, I), 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=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 endure | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 endure | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 endure | advmod |
| 7 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sight | det |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 endure | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sexton | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sexton | det |
| 12 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not endure | can | I | the sight of a sexton | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sight=Circumstance | ||||
| 3 | sight | a sexton | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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