Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 110
"Our play is much better," said grandpapa. "
Who acts: play, grandpapa, Our · What happens: be, say, play · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play, grandpapa, Our), 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 | _ | 6 better | punct |
| 2 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 play | nmod:poss |
| 3 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 better | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | cop |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 better | advmod |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | conj |
| 10 | grandpapa | grandpapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Our play | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | grandpapa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | play in a quote | Our | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=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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