Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 165
"This is my house," said the swallow; "but it would not do for you to live there--you would not be comfortable.
Who acts: This, house, you · What happens: be, say, not do, live, not be · To what, where: house, swallow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, house, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 house | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 house | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 swallow | det |
| 10 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 but | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 do | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 live | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 do | advcl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 live | advmod |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 comfortable | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 comfortable | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 comfortable | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 comfortable | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 comfortable | cop |
| 28 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 do | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | my house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | my house | the swallow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | would | house | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | you | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | would | you | comfortable property | tree rules |
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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