Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 19
That's a stupid affair with yonder fir tree,' said the potsherds.
Who acts: That, stupid affair · What happens: be, fir, say · To what, where: stupid affair, tree, potsherds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, stupid affair), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 affair | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 affair | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 affair | det |
| 4 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 affair | amod |
| 5 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 fir | case |
| 7 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 8 fir | advmod |
| 8 | fir | fir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 affair | acl:relcl |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fir | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fir | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 fir | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 potsherds | det |
| 14 | potsherds | potsherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a stupid affair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fir | infinitive | a stupid affair not said here | tree | yonder property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a stupid affair | the potsherds | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent potsherd=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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