Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 64
"They can do that too," replied grandpapa; "and if the public demands it, they will talk in that way.
Who acts: boots, grandpapa, public · What happens: do, reply, demand, talk · To what, where: that, ', 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 (boots, grandpapa, public), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 10 | grandpapa | grandpapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 talk | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 demands | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 public | det |
| 16 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 demands | nsubj |
| 17 | demands | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 talk | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 demands | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 demands | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 talk | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 talk | aux |
| 22 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 do | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 talk | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | boots = boot | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | grandpapa | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | demand speech: request a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the public | ' | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | talk in a quote | future | boots = boot | that way | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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