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

"It was in a little provincial town," the Moon said; "it certainly happened last year, but that has nothing to do with the matter.

Who acts: It, Moon, that · What happens: be, say, happen, have, do · To what, where: little provincial town, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirtieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Moon, that), 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	_	8 town	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 town	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 town	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 town	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 town	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 town	amod
7	provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 town	amod
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 town	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Moon	det
12	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 happened	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 happened	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 happened	nsubj
17	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	18 happened	advmod
18	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 year	amod
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 happened	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 has	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 has	cc
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 has	nsubj
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 has	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 nothing	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 matter	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 matter	det
30	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	It		a little provincial town			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Moon					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen in a quote	past	it			year	certainly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have in a quote	present	that	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive	that not said here	nothing not said here			with the matter	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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