Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 99
The other, however, retained sufficient presence of mind to whisper to him, “'Tis a bet, and I have won it!”
Who acts: I · What happens: retain, whisper, win · To what, where: sanctuary, bet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 presence | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 retained | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 retained | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 retained | punct |
| 6 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 presence | amod |
| 7 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 presence | amod |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 whisper | mark |
| 12 | whisper | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 presence | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 whisper | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bet | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 bet | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tis | punct |
| 18 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 bet | compound |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bet | det |
| 20 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 won | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 won | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 won | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 won | aux |
| 25 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 presence | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 won | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 won | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 presence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retain | participle | however property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: express | to-infinitive | sanctuary | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | win in a quote | present · perfect | I | bet | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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