Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 79
Think first of yourself, and then of your family; all others are nothing to us."
Who acts: you, others · What happens: think, be · To what, where: nothing, us
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, others), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 yourself | advmod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 yourself | case |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Think | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 family | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 family | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 family | advmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 family | nmod:poss |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yourself | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothing | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 nothing | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 nothing | cop |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Think | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 us | case |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 nothing | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | all others | nothing | us | 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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