Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 1
"Last night I looked down upon a town in China," said the Moon. "
Who acts: Moon · What happens: look down, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth 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 | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 2 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 China | case |
| 11 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 town | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Moon | det |
| 16 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down in a quote | past | the Moon = moon | night | upon a town in China; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon town=Theme | |||
| 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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