Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 123
“Oh yes, I've read something, to be sure,” replied the Councillor.
Who acts: Councillor · What happens: read, be, reply · To what, where: something · 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 (Councillor), 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 | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 read | discourse |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 read | nsubj |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 read | aux |
| 7 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 replied | advcl |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 read | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sure | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sure | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sure | cop |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 read | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 read | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 read | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Councillor | det |
| 17 | Councillor | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read in a quote | present · perfect | the Councillor = councillor | something | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | the Councillor = councillor not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Councillor | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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