Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 26
"I have never heard of her," said the cavalier; "yet I will endeavor to find her."
Who acts: cavalier · What happens: not hear, say, endeavor, find · To what, where: cavalier · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cavalier), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cavalier | det |
| 12 | cavalier | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 endeavor | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 endeavor | punct |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 endeavor | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 endeavor | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 endeavor | aux |
| 18 | endeavor | endeavor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 endeavor | advcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 find | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 endeavor | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 endeavor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear in a quote | present · perfect | the cavalier = cavalier | of pleasure | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the cavalier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | endeavor in a quote | future | the cavalier = cavalier | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | the cavalier = cavalier not said here | cavalier | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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