Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 180
"Well, well, one is never to give an opinion, I suppose," grumbled the portrait.
Who acts: one, portrait · What happens: not be, suppose, grumble · 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 (one, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 give | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 give | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | cop |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 give | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 opinion | det |
| 12 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 suppose | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 suppose | nsubj |
| 15 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grumbled | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 grumbled | punct |
| 18 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 suppose | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 portrait | det |
| 20 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grumbled | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | one | give property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suppose in a quote | present | the portrait = portrait | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grumble speech: other | past | the portrait | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: 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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