Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 36
“The Greeks and Romans,” said the old man, “called her a Dryad; but that we do not understand.
Who acts: Greeks, old man, we · What happens: say, call, not understand · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greeks, old man, we), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Greeks | det |
| 3 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Romans | cc |
| 5 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Greeks | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Greeks | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Greeks | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Dryad | det |
| 17 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 understand | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 understand | cc |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 understand | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 understand | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 understand | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 understand | advmod |
| 24 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Greeks and Romans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | call in a quote | past | the old man not said here | name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not understand in a quote | present · do-support | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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