Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 7
There, too, I saw many splendidly-dressed paroquets, that told the drollest stories, and the wildest fairy tales without end.”
Who acts: I, many dressed paroquets · What happens: see, dress, tell · To what, where: many dressed paroquets, drollest stories · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, many dressed paroquets), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 saw | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 paroquets | amod |
| 8 | splendidly | splendidly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dressed | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 splendidly | punct |
| 10 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 paroquets | amod |
| 11 | paroquets | paroquet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 paroquets | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stories | det |
| 16 | drollest | droll | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 stories | amod |
| 17 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 told | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tales | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tales | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tales | det |
| 21 | wildest | wild | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 tales | amod |
| 22 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tales | compound |
| 23 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tales | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | many dressed paroquets | there | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | many dressed paroquets | the drollest stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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