Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 1
"I love the children," said the Moon, "especially the quite little ones--they are so droll.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: love, say, be · To what, where: children · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second 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 | _ | 3 love | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 love | nsubj |
| 3 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 love | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Moon | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ones | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 ones | punct |
| 13 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 17 ones | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ones | det |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ones | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ones | amod |
| 17 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Moon | conj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 droll | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 droll | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 droll | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 droll | advmod |
| 22 | droll | droll | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | present | the Moon and the quite little ones = moon | the children | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Moon and the quite little ones | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Moon | droll property | tree rules |
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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