Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 55
Now the Waistcoat's speaking.
Who acts: Waistcoat · What happens: speak · 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 (Waistcoat), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 speaking | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Waistcoat | det |
| 3 | Waistcoat | Waistcoat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 speaking | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Waistcoat | case |
| 5 | speaking | speaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak | the Waistcoat | nom speaking «communication transitive»: 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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