Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 60
“Yes, it's all very well, but I see nothing of them, and I don't know them!” said the pewter soldier.
Who acts: grave, pewter soldier · What happens: be, see, not know, say · To what, where: nothing, thoughts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grave, pewter soldier), 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 | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 well | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 well | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 well | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 see | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | ccomp |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 nothing | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 know | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 know | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 soldier | det |
| 27 | pewter | pewter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 soldier | amod |
| 28 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | grave | all, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | the pewter soldier = soldier | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the pewter soldier = soldier | thoughts = thought | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | the pewter soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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