Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 80
I am travelling on a secret embassy, but you must not ask me any questions, for I cannot betray my secret."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: travel, not ask, not betray · To what, where: secret embassy, questions, me, secret
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 travelling | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelling | aux |
| 3 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 embassy | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 embassy | det |
| 6 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 embassy | amod |
| 7 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travelling | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 ask | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 ask | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 ask | advmod |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 travelling | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | iobj |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 questions | det |
| 16 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ask | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 betray | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 betray | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 betray | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 betray | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 betray | advmod |
| 22 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ask | parataxis |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 secret | nmod:poss |
| 24 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 betray | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present · progressive | I | a secret embassy | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on embassy=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | must | you | any questions | me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not betray | can | I | my secret | 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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