Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 147
There," she said, "creep away, or fly, if thou canst.
Who acts: One · What happens: say, creep away, fly · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 said | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 creep | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 creep | punct |
| 8 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 creep | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 fly | cc |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 creep | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 canst | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 canst | mark |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 canst | nsubj |
| 16 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | One | there | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | creep away | infinitive | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly | infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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