Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 77
“'Yes, this very day is the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage,' said old Granny, sticking her head between the two old people; who thought it was their neighbor who nodded to them.
Who acts: day, fiftieth anniversary, head, anniversary, neighbor · What happens: be, say, stick, think, nod · To what, where: fiftieth anniversary, head, neighbor, people · 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 (day, fiftieth anniversary, head, anniversary), 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 | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 anniversary | punct |
| 3 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 11 anniversary | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yes | punct |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 day | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 day | advmod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 anniversary | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 anniversary | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 anniversary | det |
| 10 | fiftieth | fiftieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 anniversary | amod |
| 11 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 marriage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 marriage | det |
| 14 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 anniversary | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 anniversary | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 anniversary | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Granny | amod |
| 19 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sticking | punct |
| 21 | sticking | stick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 said | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sticking | obj |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 28 people | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 people | nummod |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 people | amod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 head | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 thought | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 thought | nsubj |
| 31 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 head | acl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 neighbor | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 neighbor | cop |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 35 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 thought | ccomp |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 nodded | nsubj |
| 37 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 neighbor | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 nodded | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this day | the fiftieth anniversary | of the marriage | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the fiftieth anniversary | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stick in a quote | gerund | the fiftieth anniversary not said here | Granny's head | between the two old people | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme between people=Destination | |||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Granny's head | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | anniversary | people's neighbor | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | nod in a quote | past | people's neighbor | people | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
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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