Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 63
"But they ought to speak in verses," said Anna, "for I've heard that's the most charming way of all."
Who acts: Anna, that · What happens: speak, say, hear, charm, be · To what, where: verses, charming way · 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 (Anna, that), 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 speak | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 ought | cc |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ought | nsubj |
| 4 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 speak | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 speak | mark |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 verses | case |
| 8 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 speak | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 speak | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 speak | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 heard | case |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | aux |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 way | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 way | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 charming | advmod |
| 23 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 way | amod |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 way | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | ought | verses | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Anna | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | Anna | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | charm in a quote | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | that | the charming way | of all | tree rules |
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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