Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 5
"The theatre is my school," said she, "the source of my knowledge.
Who acts: theatre, word · What happens: be, say · To what, where: school · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (theatre, word), 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 school | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 theatre | det |
| 3 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 school | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 school | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 school | nmod:poss |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 school | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 school | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 source | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 source | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 source | det |
| 14 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 knowledge | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 17 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 source | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the theatre | my school | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | word | 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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