Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 120
“He is certainly,” thought he, “some village schoolmaster--some queer old fellow, such as one still often meets with in Jutland.”
Who acts: title · What happens: be, think, meet · To what, where: title · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (title), 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 | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 certainly | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 certainly | cop |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 thought | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 certainly | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 certainly | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 schoolmaster | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 schoolmaster | punct |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 schoolmaster | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 schoolmaster | compound |
| 13 | schoolmaster | schoolmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 fellow | punct |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 fellow | det |
| 16 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fellow | amod |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fellow | amod |
| 18 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 schoolmaster | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 22 one | case |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 such | fixed |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 fellow | nmod |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 meets | advmod |
| 24 | often | often | ADV | _ | 25 meets | advmod |
| 25 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | acl:relcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 Jutland | case |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Jutland | case |
| 28 | Jutland | Jutland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 meets | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 schoolmaster | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 schoolmaster | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | title | certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | title | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | meet in a quote | present | still | with Jutland; often property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with jutland=Co-Agent |
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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