Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 44
"Thanks, thanks," or "Creak, creak," said all the furniture.
Who acts: furniture · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (furniture), 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 | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 2 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanks | punct |
| 4 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Thanks | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanks | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanks | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 Creak | cc |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Creak | punct |
| 9 | Creak | creak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanks | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 creak | punct |
| 11 | creak | creak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Creak | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 furniture | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 furniture | det |
| 17 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | all furniture | 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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