Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 125
“'Tales of Every-day Life?'” said our Bachelor inquiringly.
Who acts: Tales, day Life · What happens: say, tell · To what, where: Bachelor · 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 (Tales, day Life), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tales | punct |
| 3 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Life | case |
| 5 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Every | punct |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Life | compound |
| 8 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tales | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tales | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tales | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tales | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Bachelor | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Bachelor | bachelor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | inquiringly | inquiringly | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tales of day Life | our Bachelor | inquiringly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bachelor=Topic | |||
| 2 | tell in a quote | day Life | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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