Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 2
Ole spoke of the toasts that were drunk on the transition from the Old Year into the New--from one grave into the other, as he said.
Who acts: Ole, he · What happens: speak, drink, say · To what, where: one grave, toasts, transition · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ole, he), 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 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 toasts | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 toasts | det |
| 5 | toasts | toast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spoke | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 drunk | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drunk | aux:pass |
| 8 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 toasts | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 transition | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 transition | det |
| 11 | transition | transition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drunk | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Year | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Year | det |
| 14 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Year | amod |
| 15 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 transition | nmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 New | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 New | det |
| 18 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Year | nmod |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 grave | punct |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 grave | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 grave | nummod |
| 22 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 other | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 other | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spoke | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 said | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Ole | one grave | of the toasts; into the other | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | drink | past · passive | the toasts | the transition from the Old Year into the New | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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