Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 31
"But the book in which I have read this account," said the emperor, "was sent to me by the great and mighty emperor of Japan, and therefore it cannot contain a falsehood.
Who acts: emperor, great emperor, account · What happens: read, say, send, not contain · To what, where: account, book, emperor, falsehood · 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 (emperor, great emperor, account), 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 | _ | 4 book | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 book | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 book | det |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 read | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 read | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 read | aux |
| 9 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 book | acl:relcl |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 account | det |
| 11 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 read | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 book | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 book | 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 emperor | det |
| 16 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sent | aux:pass |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 sent | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 emperor | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 emperor | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 emperor | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mighty | cc |
| 27 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 great | conj |
| 28 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Japan | case |
| 30 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 emperor | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 contain | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 contain | cc |
| 33 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 37 contain | advmod |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 contain | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 contain | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 contain | advmod |
| 37 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sent | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 falsehood | det |
| 39 | falsehood | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 contain | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read in a quote | present · perfect | the emperor = emperor | this account | the book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | send in a quote | past · passive | the great emperor of Japan | the emperor = emperor | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to i=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not contain in a quote | can | account | a falsehood | therefore property | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot falsehood=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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