Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 51

"Those were his own words, and they were just like him," said our aunt.

Who acts: flies, Those, Judgment · What happens: be, say, word · To what, where: aunt · 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 (flies, Those, Judgment), 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	_	16 said	punct
2	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 said	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Those	acl:relcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 words	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 him	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 him	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 him	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 him	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 him	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Those	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Those	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Those	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 aunt	nmod:poss
18	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	flies = fly		like Judgment	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Those	our aunt		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent aunt=Topic
3	word in a quote		Judgment			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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