Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 13
“I say nothing, it is true,” exclaimed the King; “but I have my own opinion, notwithstanding.”
Who acts: King, it, Grasshopper, my · What happens: say, be, exclaim, have, notwithstand, opine · To what, where: nothing, own opinion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Leap-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, it, Grasshopper, my), 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 | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | csubj |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 say | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 true | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | cop |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | parataxis |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 opinion | amod |
| 21 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 notwithstanding | punct |
| 23 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 have | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 true | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the King = king | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | it | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | Grasshopper | my own opinion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient | ||||
| 5 | notwithstand in a quote | gerund | Grasshopper not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | opine in a quote | my | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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