Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 129
“I have not read that novel,” said the Councillor; “it must be quite a new one, that Heiberg has published lately.”
Who acts: Councillor, more, Heiberg · What happens: not read, say, be, publish · To what, where: novel, new one · 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, more, Heiberg), 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 | _ | 5 read | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 read | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 read | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 read | advmod |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 novel | det |
| 7 | novel | novel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 read | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Councillor | det |
| 12 | Councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 one | cop |
| 18 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 one | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 published | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 published | mark |
| 24 | Heiberg | Heiberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 published | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 published | aux |
| 26 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 one | acl |
| 27 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 26 published | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 published | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not read in a quote | present · perfect | the Councillor = councillor | that novel | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent novel=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Councillor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | must | more | quite new one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | publish in a quote | present · perfect | Heiberg | quite new one not said here | lately property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Result |
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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