Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 38

It was a king's son who spoke; whereon the others said, “Such people always want to be wiser than everybody else.”

Who acts: Bell, son, others, Such people · What happens: be, speak, say, want · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bell, son, others, Such people), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 son	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 son	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 spoke	nsubj
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 son	acl:relcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	whereon	whereon	ADV	PronType=Int	13 said	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 others	det
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 son	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 want	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 want	punct
16	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 people	amod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 want	nsubj
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 want	advmod
19	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 wiser	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 wiser	cop
22	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 want	xcomp
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 everybody	case
24	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 wiser	obl
25	else	else	ADV	_	24 everybody	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bell	a king's son		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	a king's son			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the others		whereon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	want in a quote	present	Such people		always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
5	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Such people not said here		than everybody; wise property	tree rules

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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