Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 20

"Don't speak so loud, or she will wake," said the toad, "and then she might run away, for she is as light as swan's down.

Who acts: toad · What happens: not speak, wake, say, run away, be · 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 (toad), 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	_	4 speak	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 speak	advmod
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 loud	advmod
6	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wake	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 wake	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wake	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wake	aux
11	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 speak	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 toad	det
16	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 run	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 run	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 run	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 run	aux
23	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	conj
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 run	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 light	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 light	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 light	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 light	cop
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 light	advmod
30	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 run	parataxis
31	as	as	ADP	_	34 down	case
32	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 down	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 swan	case
34	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 light	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive · do-support			loud property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake in a quote	future	toad			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the toad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	run away in a quote	might	toad	then	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	toad		as swan's down; light 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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