Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 24
“The manor-house has most likely fallen to ruin!” said Father Snail.
Who acts: manor house, Father Snail · What happens: fall, ruin, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manor house, Father Snail), 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 | _ | 9 fallen | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 3 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 manor | punct |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fallen | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fallen | aux |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 likely | advmod |
| 8 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 9 fallen | advmod |
| 9 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ruin | mark |
| 11 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fallen | xcomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 fallen | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fallen | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Snail | compound |
| 16 | Snail | Snail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | present · perfect | the manor house | likely property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ruin in a quote | to-infinitive | the manor house not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Father Snail | 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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