Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 1

"I have spoken to you of Pompeii," said the Moon; "that corpse of a city, exposed in the view of living towns: I know another sight still more strange, and this is not the corpse, but the spectre of a city.

Who acts: Moon, this · What happens: speak, say, expose, know, not be, view · To what, where: you, corpse, view, sight, living towns · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth 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, this), 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	_	4 spoken	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 spoken	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 spoken	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Pompeii	case
8	Pompeii	Pompeii	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoken	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Moon	det
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 corpse	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 corpse	punct
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 corpse	det
17	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 city	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 city	det
20	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 corpse	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 exposed	punct
22	exposed	expose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 corpse	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 view	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 view	det
25	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 exposed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 towns	case
27	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 towns	amod
28	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 view	nmod
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 know	nsubj
31	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 sight	det
33	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 know	obj
34	still	still	ADV	_	35 more	advmod
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 strange	advmod
36	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 know	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 corpse	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 corpse	cc
39	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 corpse	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 corpse	cop
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 corpse	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 corpse	det
43	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 spectre	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 spectre	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 spectre	det
47	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 corpse	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 city	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 city	det
50	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 spectre	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other in a quote	present · perfect	the Moon = moon		you		of Pompeii	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Moon					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	expose in a quote	participle		that corpse of a city not said here		the view of living towns		vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
4	know in a quote	present	the Moon = moon	another sight				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
5	not is a in a quote	present	this	the corpse but the spectre of a city				tree rules
6	view in a quote			living towns				nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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