Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 64
“I don't understand your Bornholmish dialect,” said he at last, angrily, and turning his back upon them.
Who acts: unintelligible · What happens: not understand, say, turn · To what, where: Bornholmish dialect, back · 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 (unintelligible), 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 understand | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 understand | advmod |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dialect | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Bornholmish | Bornholmish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dialect | compound |
| 8 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understand | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 angrily | punct |
| 16 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 14 last | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turning | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turning | cc |
| 19 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 back | nmod:poss |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turning | obj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turning | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand in a quote | present · do-support | unintelligible | your Bornholmish dialect | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dialect=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | unintelligible | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | unintelligible not said here | unintelligible's back | upon boatmen = boatman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
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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