Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 131
“Oh, is that the author's name?” said the Councillor.
Who acts: name, author · What happens: be, name
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 (name, author), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 said | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 author | det |
| 7 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 author | case |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Councillor | det |
| 14 | Councillor | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the author's name | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name in a quote | the author | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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