Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 4
It is said to be German, but that is unjust to the Germans, for it would then be called "Hauschen," not "Hysken." "
Who acts: that · What happens: say, be, call · To what, where: name · 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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 German | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 German | cop |
| 6 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unjust | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 unjust | cc |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 unjust | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 unjust | cop |
| 11 | unjust | unjust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Germans | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Germans | det |
| 14 | Germans | German | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 unjust | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 called | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 called | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Hauschen | punct |
| 23 | Hauschen | Hauschen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Hysken | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Hysken | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 Hysken | advmod |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Hysken | punct |
| 28 | Hysken | Hysken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Hauschen | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 Hauschen | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Hauschen | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Hauschen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | name | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | german property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | that | to the Germans; unjust property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | would · passive | name | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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