Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 71
"Just look at that fellow," said the chickens.
Who acts: chickens · What happens: look, say · 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 (chickens), 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 | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 fellow | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fellow | det |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chickens | det |
| 11 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | at that fellow | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fellow=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the chickens | 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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