Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 139
Now don't be obstinate, or I shall bite you with my white teeth.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not be, bite · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 obstinate | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 obstinate | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 obstinate | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 obstinate | cop |
| 5 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bite | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 bite | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bite | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bite | aux |
| 10 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 obstinate | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 bite | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 teeth | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 teeth | amod |
| 15 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bite | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 obstinate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | imperative · do-support | you not said here | now | obstinate property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bite | shall | I | you | with my white teeth | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with tooth=Instrument |
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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