Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 1
The Moon said, "Beside the woodland path there are two small farm-houses.
Who acts: Moon, two small farm houses · What happens: say, be · To what, where: woodland path · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth 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, two small farm houses), 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 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 are | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 are | punct |
| 6 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 path | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 path | det |
| 8 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 path | compound |
| 9 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 are | obl |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 are | expl |
| 11 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 houses | nummod |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 houses | amod |
| 14 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 houses | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 farm | punct |
| 16 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 are | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Moon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | two small farm houses | the woodland path; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside path=Location |
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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