Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 111
“To-day is Polly's birthday,” said she with stupid simplicity: “and the little brown field-bird must wish him joy.”
Who acts: Polly, little brown field bird · What happens: be, say, wish · To what, where: birthday, joy, Clerk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Polly, little brown field bird), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 birthday | cop |
| 6 | Polly | Polly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Polly | case |
| 8 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 simplicity | case |
| 14 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 simplicity | amod |
| 15 | simplicity | simplicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 wish | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 wish | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wish | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bird | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bird | amod |
| 21 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bird | amod |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bird | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 field | punct |
| 24 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wish | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 wish | aux |
| 26 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wish | iobj |
| 28 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wish | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 wish | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Polly not said here | Polly's birthday | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Polly | day | with stupid simplicity | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | wish in a quote | must | the little brown field bird | joy | Clerk | tree rules |
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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