Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 8
Do not use your beaks so much; it tries the lungs."
Who acts: you, mamma · What happens: not use, try · To what, where: beaks, lungs
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, mamma), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 use | advmod |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beaks | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 use | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 tries | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tries | nsubj |
| 10 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lungs | det |
| 12 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tries | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not use | imperative · do-support | you not said here | your beaks | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient | ||||
| 2 | try | present | mamma | the lungs | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lung=Eventuality |
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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