Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 31
"Yes," said the student, "mind you think of it the next time you go out, no doubt you will see them, if you peep through the window.
Who acts: student, you, doubt · What happens: say, think, go out, see, peep · To what, where: flowers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, you, doubt), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 student | det |
| 7 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 think | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mind | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 mind | punct |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 student | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 think | nsubj |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 think | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 think | parataxis |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 doubt | det |
| 23 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | nsubj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 peep | punct |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 peep | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 peep | nsubj |
| 31 | peep | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | conj |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 window | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 window | det |
| 34 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 peep | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the student and mind | of mind | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go out in a quote | present | you | time | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | see in a quote | future | no doubt | flowers = flower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | peep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | through the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=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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