Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 139
"If you have not stolen it, you may say at home that they can send to the watch-house for the dog."
Who acts: you, things · What happens: not steal, say, send · To what, where: you, home, watch house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, things), 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 | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 stolen | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stolen | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 stolen | advmod |
| 6 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 say | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stolen | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stolen | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | aux |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 send | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 send | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 send | aux |
| 17 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 say | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 20 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 house | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 watch | punct |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 send | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 dog | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dog | det |
| 25 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 send | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not steal a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | may | you | home | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | send in a quote | can | things = thing | the watch house | for the dog | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to house=Destination |
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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