Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 67
"Keen weather to-day!" say the people, as they step in.
Who acts: Keen weather, people · What happens: say, step in · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Keen weather, people), 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 weather | punct |
| 2 | Keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weather | amod |
| 3 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 to | punct |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weather | nmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 weather | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 say | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 step | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 step | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 step | nsubj |
| 15 | step | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 step | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Keen weather to day | the people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent people=Topic | ||||
| 2 | step in | present | people | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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