Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 68
“I'll take a hackney-coach!” thought he.
Who acts: I · What happens: take, think · To what, where: hackney coach, unintelligible · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coach | det |
| 6 | hackney | hackney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coach | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hackney | punct |
| 8 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | future | I | a hackney coach | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | unintelligible | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=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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