Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 91

"Yes, you may well say that, as a clever man!" exclaimed the field-mouse, "What is the use of his twittering, for when winter comes he must either starve or be frozen to death.

Who acts: you, field mouse, winter, man · What happens: say, exclaim, be, come, starve, freeze · To what, where: that, use · 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 (you, field mouse, winter, man), 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	_	7 say	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 say	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 say	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 exclaimed	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 exclaimed	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 exclaimed	nsubj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
16	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mouse	det
18	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mouse	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 field	punct
20	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 exclaimed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 use	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 use	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 use	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 use	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 use	det
26	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 exclaimed	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 twittering	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 twittering	nmod:poss
29	twittering	twittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 use	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 starve	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 comes	mark
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 comes	advmod
33	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 comes	nsubj
34	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 starve	advcl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 starve	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 starve	aux
37	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 starve	advmod
38	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	parataxis
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 frozen	cc
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 frozen	aux:pass
41	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 starve	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 death	case
43	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 frozen	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	may	you	that	well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
2	exclaim speech: express	past	the field mouse			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present		the use	of man's twittering	tree rules
4	come in a quote	present	winter			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	starve in a quote	must	man		either property	tree rules
6	freeze in a quote	infinitive · passive	man not said here		to death	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»

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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