Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 1
"I knew an old maid," said the Moon. "
Who acts: Moon · What happens: know, say · To what, where: old maid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon), 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 | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 maid | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maid | amod |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Moon | det |
| 11 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | past | the Moon = moon | a old maid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Moon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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