Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 17
"I have no occasion to do so," replied the buckwheat.
Who acts: buckwheat · What happens: have, do, reply · To what, where: occasion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buckwheat), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 occasion | det |
| 5 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 occasion | acl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 do | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 buckwheat | det |
| 13 | buckwheat | buckwheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the buckwheat = buckwheat | no occasion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the buckwheat = buckwheat not said here | no occasion not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the buckwheat | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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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