Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 88
"Let us lay a wager on it," said the Englishmen. "
Who acts: us, Englishmen · What happens: let, lay, say · To what, where: us, wager · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, Englishmen), 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wager | det |
| 6 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Englishmen | det |
| 13 | Englishmen | Englishman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lay in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | a wager | wager | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wager=Theme on it=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Englishmen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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