Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 37
“I know one, sure enough--the most charming one!” said one of the ants.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: know, say · To what, where: one · 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 (I, one), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 know | parataxis |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 charming | advmod |
| 11 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ants | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ants | det |
| 19 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | I | one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | one of the ants | 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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