Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 70
The last word was spoken by Mr. Pipe-head; and now it's Mr. Waistcoat's turn:
Who acts: Pipe head, word · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: last word, turn · 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 (Pipe head, word), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoken | aux:pass |
| 5 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Pipe | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Pipe | Pipe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 head | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Pipe | punct |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoken | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 turn | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turn | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 turn | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turn | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 turn | cop |
| 16 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Waistcoat | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Waistcoat | Waistcoat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 turn | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Waistcoat | case |
| 19 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoken | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · passive | Pipe head | the last word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | word | Waistcoat Mr.'s turn | now | 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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