Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 146
"God's will is the best," he would then say. "
Who acts: God · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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 | _ | 7 best | punct |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 best | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 God | case |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 best | aux |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 best | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 best | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | aux |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 say | advmod |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 best | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | God | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | would | God | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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