Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 12
Get up!' said he; 'your face is enough to frighten one.
Who acts: you, landlord, face · What happens: get up, say, be, frighten · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, landlord, face), 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Get | compound:prt |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | conj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 enough | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 enough | punct |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enough | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 enough | cop |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Get | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 frighten | mark |
| 14 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 enough | advcl |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 frighten | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | landlord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | your face | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | frighten | to-infinitive | your face not said here | one | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer |
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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