Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 75
"Yes, to be sure, he is stupid," said the turkey-cock; and gobbled.
Who acts: horse, turkey cock · What happens: be, say, gobble · 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 (horse, turkey cock), 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 | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 sure | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sure | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stupid | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stupid | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stupid | cop |
| 10 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sure | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stupid | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cock | det |
| 15 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cock | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 turkey | punct |
| 17 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 gobbled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gobbled | cc |
| 20 | gobbled | gobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | horse | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the turkey cock | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gobble | past | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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