Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 77
Here is no doubt a new book about our celebrated bird," said the emperor.
Who acts: doubt · What happens: be, celebrate, say · To what, where: emperor · 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 (doubt), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 said | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 doubt | det |
| 4 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 book | amod |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 bird | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bird | nmod:poss |
| 10 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bird | amod |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 book | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | no doubt | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent emperor=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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