Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 204
"Now I call that very instructive," murmured the great-grandfather's portrait. "
Who acts: portrait, great grandfather · What happens: call, murmur, portray · To what, where: that · 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 (portrait, great grandfather), 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 | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 call | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 instructive | advmod |
| 7 | instructive | instructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 call | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 murmured | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 murmured | punct |
| 10 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grandfather | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grandfather | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 great | punct |
| 14 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 grandfather | case |
| 16 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 murmured | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | present | the great grandfather's portrait = portrait | that | now | instructive property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | the great grandfather's portrait | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | portray | the great grandfather | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=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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