Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 170
Mr. Luk-Oie," said an old portrait which hung on the wall of Hjalmar's bedroom. "
Who acts: Luk, old portrait · What happens: say, hang · To what, where: old portrait, wall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Luk, old portrait), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Luk | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Oie | punct |
| 4 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Luk | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Luk | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Luk | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 portrait | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 portrait | amod |
| 10 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hung | nsubj |
| 12 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 portrait | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hung | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bedroom | case |
| 17 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bedroom | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Hjalmar | case |
| 19 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wall | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Luk Mr. and Oie | a old portrait | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent portrait=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hang in a quote | past | a old portrait | the wall of Hjalmar's bedroom | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location |
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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