Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 147
Greet the little swallow from me, if you should see him again."
Who acts: you · What happens: greet, see · To what, where: little swallow, mouse
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), 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 | Greet | greet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 swallow | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 swallow | amod |
| 4 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Greet | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Greet | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Greet | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Greet | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Greet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | imperative | you not said here | the little swallow | from me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swallow=Theme | |||
| 2 | see a condition, not said to happen | should | you | mouse | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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